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Jun 11
Latest story for the Guardian about the female activists, journalists and protestors who have endured years of torture and abuse in Myanmar's prisons
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1 Dec 2025
Derided and undermined but what I didn’t say in the moment is that our Palestinian colleagues have also been killed in their hundreds by Israel in Gaza cpj.org/2023/10/journalist-c…
1 Dec 2025
'That is still my lifetime ambition - to get into Gaza at some stage again'
Special correspondent @AlexCrawfordSky says Israel's blanket ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza gives 'journalists and the wider world a huge disservice'
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17 Nov 2025
“Gaza had been celebrating since the news broke, but grief was never far away.”
Sara Roy, author of Unsilencing Gaza, writes for @nybooks: What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
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12 Sep 2025
"In a sea of silence, abandonment and violence, they offer the rarest thing: someone is still looking for you. […] That your life matters."
Journalist @AlexHowlett2 was onboard the #OceanViking during 2 rescues and the shootings by Libyan Coast Guard.👇
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10 Sep 2025
My story for @service95 on @SOSMedIntl's Ocean Viking. The Libyan 'coast guard' opened fire, risking the lives of 87 survivors and crew.
It was a privilege to see them in action. Truly incredible & resilient people.
#searchandrescue #Mediterranean
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26 Aug 2025
RT @Beltrew: Mariam, killed by Israeli strike today, had the chance to leave Gaza to be with her son but she chose to stay to report and to…
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Alex Howlett (@AlexHowlett2): unmasking the architects of the grim world of human trafficking
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11 Aug 2025
My review of Barbie Latza Nadeau's book 'Every Body Counts: Money, lies and the hidden trade in human lives' in the TLS: the-tls.com/regular-features…
As human trafficking becomes the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, Nadeau's book is nothing less than essential reading
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Alex Howlett retweeted
7 Aug 2025
You're watching armed French cops attacking a father and his small child yesterday as they try to board a boat bound for the UK. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. This is what fascism looks like.
Community note
Police preventing people from taking themselves from a position of relative safely and putting themselves in harms way (potentially risking death) is not a fascist act
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4 Jun 2025
If you’re free on 18th June please come to this free event at Pimlico Library where we’re chairing a panel with the incredible @SOSMedIntl and @4refugeewomen 6:15 -7:15 ❤️
19 May 2025
📢 Join us to celebrate the contributions and resilience of refugees and people seeking asylum with a special panel talk lead by the authors of Wander Women: Tales of Transgression in a Bordered World!
📅 Wednesday 18 June
📍Pimlico Library
🔗 bit.ly/4jNrOEs
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Alex Howlett retweeted
29 May 2025
This is my journalistic colleague Motaz Rajab. Did you know he was murdered yesterday?
No one spoke of him because a journalist being killed in Gaza is a daily occurrence.
You only kill journalists when truth is your enemy.
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23 May 2025
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Alex Howlett retweeted
2 May 2025
Gaza’s Health Ministry urges the UN to declare a famine, saying 92% of children and pregnant women now suffer from severe malnutrition.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/jj8tvo
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1 May 2025
The UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) says nearly 3,000 aid trucks are piled up at Gaza’s border, unable to cross due to Israel’s now two-month blockade.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/aszkn6
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Alex Howlett retweeted
29 Apr 2025
Foreign doctors returning from Gaza have reported that on a near-daily basis, they personally saw children in hospital for gunshot wounds to the head.
What Israel is doing to Palestinian children isn't some by-product of an indiscriminate assault. It's targeted.
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Alex Howlett retweeted
26 Feb 2025
At least six infants have died from hypothermia in Gaza during a two-week cold spell, as the UN calls on Israel to lift restrictions on shelters entering the besieged enclave.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/4ptyyy
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24 Feb 2025
China's tuna vessels used North Korea crews in breach of UN bans, report says independent.co.uk/news/south…
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24 Feb 2025
“Their families don’t have any idea whether they are still alive or not"
@nytimes coverage of @ejfoundation's new report revealing that Chinese fishing vessels used North Korean labour in breach of UN sanctions. The NK crew spent up to a decade at sea
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Alex Howlett retweeted
11 Feb 2025
1242 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 782 days since the Taliban banned women from going to university. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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Alex Howlett retweeted
18 Jan 2025
Recommended watch: A stateless journalist told the story of climate refugees in the world’s second-largest refugee camp via a short @ejfoundation documentary.
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