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Press Briefs reported nearly 7,000 police custody cases, 86% of which involved minors, and indicated that the majority had not led to legal proceedings at this stage. The account described these arrests as a massive and unprecedented measure aimed at containing the mobilization of young people. Several cited observers viewed this as a form of intimidation, while Press Briefs believed this practice infringed on the right to protest and risked normalizing disproportionate police and judicial responses. The account added that the preventive use of police custody had already been documented during the Yellow Vests movement. Relying on independent press articles, Press Briefs relayed testimonies from high school students reporting violent detention conditions, symptoms of post-traumatic stress, forced undressings, and physical or psychological violence. A 15-year-old reportedly recounted being slammed against a concrete bed and hit on the head by police and then insulted. A complaint had been filed, according to the account, which also indicated that the police prefecture had not responded to Mediapart's questions about the reported statements. Mohammed, a 16-year-old high school student in Saint-Denis, reportedly stated that police had hit the bars of his cell during the night to wake up the detainees and had targeted him with a racist insult. The mother of Noham, also 16, claimed that her son had been hit in the liver and face after asking why he had been arrested. Adam's mother also denounced violence against young protesters. Press Briefs added that several teenage girls and boys reported sexist and racist remarks from police, and complaints had been filed. Anne Savinel-Barras, president of Amnesty International France, expressed her concern over the repression of the student movement, believing that the young people's demands for education and health were met with prohibitions on demonstrations and disproportionate police violence. The NGO stated that it would support people peacefully protesting and defend the right to demonstrate. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights also expressed concern about the situation in France and notably called for a proportional use of force. #jeunesse #manifestation #répression (translated)

Malca Goldstein-Wolf stated that there is no genocide in Gaza. She referred to Doctors Without Borders, after Amnesty, as the next charity organization she accused of antisemitism and called for not donating money to the organization. https://t.co/0ibl1pKlLN #Gaza #Genozid #Antisemitismus (translated)

In the United States, the announcement of the streaming execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted for the murder of 13 people at Fort Hood, marks a new chapter in the horror of the death penalty, evoking a dual reaction of brutalization and terror in society. #PenaDiMorte #DirittiUmani #AmnestyInternational (translated)

The number of countries that carry out executions in Southeast Asia is decreasing, while Singapore and Myanmar continue to increase their executions, according to a report from Amnesty International that highlights both progress and remaining serious abuses in the region. #Dödsstraff #MänskligaRättigheter #ASEAN (translated)

Yaron Nadbornik asked why the United States did not label the events in Gaza as genocide, even though some researchers did. He estimated that the difference might be due to the U.S. military leadership having access to real-time military intelligence, such as satellite imagery and intelligence cooperation, which civilian researchers, according to him, did not have. He also noted that many researchers specialized in other topics. Nadbornik argued that criticism cited organizations and institutions as needed, which had expanded the interpretation of the concept of international genocide so that Israel's actions fit within it. He mentioned examples like Amnesty's report on page 101, B'Tselem's output, and a UN committee. Finally, Nadbornik described the media as a new Pravda and wrote that those who did not accept it deserved to be canceled. He compared political correctness to the Soviet Union and sarcastically noted that no researcher should be upset. https://t.co/2MNmZd6ulU #kansanmurha #Gazassa #politiikka (translated)

Joachim B. Olsen called Amnesty International an unreliable organization. He wrote that the organization's report on the war in Gaza began by stating that Israel launched an offensive against the occupied Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. Olsen also criticized Amnesty's statements about the riots in France and described the organization's approach as "suicidal empathy on steroids." #AmnestyInternational #Gaza #Frankrig (translated)

After the failed execution of US death row inmate Christa Pike, who is being treated in critical condition in the hospital, Amnesty International and UN human rights commissioner Volker Türk are calling for the death penalty to be abolished in the USA. #Todesstrafe #ChristaPike #Menschenrechte (translated)

Iriedaily94 wrote that young people with a migration background set all sorts of things on fire, and according to him, also people. He pointed out that they were treated so poorly and called for Amnesty to be abolished. #AllochtoneJongeren #Amnesty #SocialeRechtvaardigheid (translated)

Following the damning report on the atrocities committed by #Rwanda and the M23 in the mining areas of Eastern #DRC (executions of minors, torture, looting of coltan from Rubaya and gold), the Minister of Communication, @PatrickMuyaya, received the delegation from @amnesty. ▪︎ Common priority: Intensify the fight against impunity, strengthen judicial mechanisms, and mobilize the international community for the victims. #RDC #DroitsHumains #Justice (translated)

"It is not a thing of the past; attacks are still happening, the last one took place a few days ago," said Esteban Beltrán, director of Amnesty International in Spain, on the show "La Hora de La 1" [on the public Spanish channel RTVE]. #Ceuta #Migrations #DroitsHumains (translated)