I’m so very grateful to @MelissaMahtani for this brilliant profile of me in @guardian - “The Man Who Performs Miracles: How ‘The Extractor’ Works to Free Political Prisoners” - She really captures the essence of this work and why it means so much to me. shorturl.at/ginKU

I am delighted to announce the publishing of my new book, The Oxford Handbook on the UN #HumanRights System, co-edited with former UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. bit.ly/UNHumanRightsBook. Running some 1,300 pages with eight sections, 43 chapters, and 67 authors, the book is the first comprehensive and compelling practical account of the human rights work carried out by the UN and how the system can be reformed. @ipinst @UN @UN_SPExperts @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @OxUniPress

We shouldn't forget that as the Pakistani government cleanses its image by serving as a mediator for the Iran war, Pakistan remains a military-dominated government that is imprisoning the country's most popular politician, former prime minister Imran Khan. x.com/Channel4News/status/20…

I understand @ImranKhanPTI son's frustration. While Pakistani government's efforts at facilitating negotiations to end the war between #USA/#Israel and #Iran is commendable, we should not forget its terrible and unjust treatment of @ImranKhanPTI, his family and his supporters.#Pakistan x.com/i/status/2045425087839…

Sons of Imran Khan, Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, have taken their father's justice fight to the UN. In a strong appeal to the international community, they highlighted grave human rights violations and reported physical mistreatment in arbitrary detention. The world cannot stay silent as a global leader and voice of millions faces such injustice. They demand an immediate end to the isolation and mistreatment of the world's most popular leader. #SaveImranKhansEyeSight

Today my client @imrankhanpti’s son @kasim_khan_1999 delivered a powerful message to the @UN #HumanRightsCouncil in #Geneva demanding the release of his Dad and all political prisoners in #Pakistan.

.@JourneyOfficial frontman & organ player @TheJonathanCain is sporting a Washington @Capitals #26 #NicDowd jersey at @CapitalOneArena tonight! @capitalpr @monsportnet Oh, wait!! He just borrowed Dowder’s number - it says Cain on the back, so HE is the fan!

I am SO proud of @liliantintori, the wife of @leopoldolopez of #Venezuela and @bertavalle, the wife of Felix @Maradiaga of #Nicaragua who today with @WLCongress & @NEDemocracy launched two new books: “Pathway to Freedom: Handbook for the Liberation of #PoliticalPrisoners” and “After Liberation: Handbook for the Reintegration of Political Prisoners.” bit.ly/4u5jq8L - I worked over many years with these courageous women to secure their husbands’ release from prison. And it is amazing to see how they have taken their lived experiences and, working with others, created these extraordinary resources for political prisoners and their families.

Thanks to @sophiaalcacer & the @Harvard @thecrimson for the great story about our panel discussion on Iran #humanrights hosted by @HarvardIOP and @CarrCenter. thecrimson.com/article/2026/…

I am excited to moderate a timely virtual discussion on Tues. 2/24 at 6 pm EST with @AlinejadMasih @hadighaemi @sianamazi @tahbazmorad at @HarvardIOP @Kennedy_School entitled “#Iran at a Crossroads: #HumanRights in a Changing Landscape,” co-sponsored by the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights. iop.harvard.edu/events/iran-… @CarrCenter @FreeMorad1

I have just submitted an #urgent #appeal to @UN #Special #Rapporteur on the #Right to #Health @drtlaleng #mofokeng on behalf of fmr. Prime Minister @ImranKhanPTI asking for her immediate intervention with the #Pakistan regime. #ImranKhan has lost most vision in one eye and he and so many other #political #prisoners have been systematically denied essential medical treatment for serious health conditions. This must end immediately! @sayedzbukhari @PTIofficial @kasim_khan_1999 #HumanRights @bogartjacob @UNHumanRights @volker_turk @UN_SPExperts @UN_HRC

We would like to thank Brandon Silver of @TheRWCHR for mentioning Imran Khan’s name as a political prisoner, during his speech at Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. Thanks to patriotic overseas Pakistani Dr. Sabreena for highlighting Imran Khan’s name during the speech. @GenevaSummit @SabreenaDTRT #FreeImranKhan

“The conviction & sentence of @RubenVardanyan_ to 20 years in prison by the Baku Military Court on manufactured charges is simply a travesty of justice. A respected businessman and philanthropist, Ruben’s only ‘crime’ was standing up for the right to self-determination of the Armenian-Christian people of Nagorno-Karabakh, some 120,000 of whom were victims of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s ethnic cleansing campaign that drove them from that region into Armenia. The trial itself was a total sham as it is illegal for civilians to ever be tried before a military court. It was also held in secret, with countless other due process abuses such repeated denials of access to counsel and the court simply ignoring dozens of filed motions that under Azeri law had to each be ruled upon within days of their filing. Beyond that, literally all the so-called ‘evidence’ of the ‘witnesses’ presented to the court was illegal as inadmissible hearsay. Every witness claimed they or family members were injured in attacks by the Armenian military or other armed groups - but the sum total of the ‘evidence’ Ruben was actually connected to or responsible for any of these attacks was their having heard in the Azeri state-run media that he was responsible. That is evidence of nothing at all. As such, Ruben’s conviction and sentence violates both international and Azeri law and all 19 Armenian-Christian political prisoners and POWs must be immediately and unconditionally released. I urge President @realDonaldTrump to follow through on his public commitment to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to secure the release of all of them from President Aliyev so they can safely return to Armenia.” Jared Genser, International Counsel to Ruben Vardanyan #freerubenvardanyan #freearmenianprisoners

Thank you SO much @UN Special Rapporteur on #Torture @DrAliceJEdwards for making public the letter you sent to #Pakistan on @ImranKhanPTI’s case after our submission to you, letting the world know the regime didn’t even bother to reply, believing it can act with total #impunity. We will keep up the fight until he and all Pakistan’s #political #prisoners are free! @sayedzbukhari @PTIofficial @kasim_khan_1999 #HumanRights @bogartjacob spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMRe…