PAUL RUSESABAGINA IS FREE 🤩🤩🥳🥳❤️❤️🛬🛬🛬 Dad has just arrived in San Antonio, Texas🛬🛬🛬 Thank you to EVERYONE who worked soooo hard to bring him home. 🙏❤️🙏 Our Family is finally reunited today. 💞💞#FreeRusesabagina @freethehero #TheHeroIsFree #FreedHero #HotelRwanda

#RDC: Le Forum des Droits Humains a documenté deux morts, plusieurs arrestations et de nombreux blessés lors de la manifestation du C64 à Kinshasa ce vendredi, dont des violences contre Martin Fayulu, Jean-Marc Kabund et Delly Sesanga. Les sièges de l'ECiDé, du FONUS et d'Ensemble pour le Changement auraient été saccagés par des éléments de la Force du Progrès de l'UDPS, "avec l'appui ou la complaisance de certains policiers". L'organisation réclame l'ouverture immédiate d'enquêtes indépendantes.

URGENT #RDC: Le siège du parti de Martin Fayulu a été saccagé. On peut observer dans cette vidéo par qui.

@fdhrdc : ci-joint notre communiqué sur le monitoring de la manifestation de l'opposition du 12 juin 2026. Nous exprimons notre profonde préoccupation face aux violences observées, aux pertes en vies humaines, aux blessés et aux arrestations enregistrées. #RDC #DroitsHumains

This week moved fast. @Global_Witness and @hrw both dropped major reports on Rwanda, M23 and eastern DRC conflict coltan and the camps it funds - landing in the same stretch as our own @M28Investigates #MozambiqueExposed stories. A lot has crossed the timeline. Some of you will have caught one thread and missed two. So I'm going to take the coming days to walk through it properly - the coltan supply chain, the forced-recruitment camps, and how the Mozambique pieces connect to the same architecture of Rwandan military entrepreneurship. Stay with me. The full picture is worth your time. More soon.

The World Liberty Congress strongly condemns the Taliban’s recent arrests of dozens of women in Herat Province for allegedly violating the Taliban’s imposed dress code, as well as the reported use of force against peaceful civilians exercising their fundamental right to protest. The international community must not remain silent while gender apartheid is enforced, peaceful dissent is crushed, and fundamental freedoms are systematically denied. Read the full statement: worldlibertycongress.org/sta… #Afghanistan #AfghanWomen #HumanRights #GenderApartheid

Tundu Lissu’s Freedom Cannot Wait: Urgent Action Needed Ahead of the 11 June 2026 Court Hearing #FreeTunduLissu —Admin.

🇲🇿#MozambiqueExposed: New revelations on June 9th. Stay tuned. — 🇲🇿#MozambiqueExposed : Novas revelações em 9 de junho. Fique atento. With: @Observateurs @paper_trail_m @ZDF @expresso @Source_Mat @ZitamarNews @RFI / @RFI_Pt / @RFI_Sw @M28Investigates

The 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum has come to a close, but the impact of our gathering continues to resonate.

At the @OsloFF, members of the World Liberty Congress stood together to ensure the voices of freedom advocates from around the world were seen and heard. Their powerful representation reflected the strength of a growing global movement committed to defending democracy, human rights, and freedom.

Congratulations to @BeatriceNdefon, WLC member, on her election as Coordinator for the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) of the Subsidiary Body for Climate Change for the Central African Region. This well-deserved achievement reflects her outstanding leadership, dedication to advancing gender equality, and commitment to climate justice across the region. We wish her every success in this important role. 🌍

At the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum’s Freedom Tech track, @waithiraah, co-founder of the Bitcoin payment app Tando, explains that many people need to see Bitcoin work before they trust it. Tando lets users test it with just a hundred sats (less than a dollar), and verify the experience for themselves. It’s a bet that Bitcoin adoption will grow when the tool feels accessible.

If you want your wallet/app to have any chance at traction for the billions of people in developing nations, it needs to work out of the box with very low stakes. Many can't afford to test your app with $5 which may not let them get $4.99 out. You get one chance to make a first impression -- especially when it comes to financial apps!

Two journalists arrested in #Rwanda for reporting on Kigali's worst kept secret. All those jailed unjustly should be immediately and unconditionally released, and the abusive legal framework should be reformed. New dispatch for @hrw hrw.org/news/2026/06/04/two-…

‼️HOW MY FIGHT CHANGED THE LAW IN BELGIUM, AND WHY IT MATTERS FOR OTHERS‼️ You may know Paul #Rusesabagina as the man who inspired Hotel Rwanda. He is also the father of @ckanimba, my fellow member of the @WLCongress. Since 2005, the Rwandan government threatened him repeatedly, with break-ins and intimidation, to the point that Belgian intelligence provided him protection. Then #Rwanda turned the international cooperation system against him: a "mutual legal assistance" (#MLA) request that led Belgian authorities to search his home in Kraainem, #Brussels, in 2020, and his private documents were passed to Rwanda. The search was carried out by Belgian police in the presence of Rwandan agents. Paul Rusesabagina had protection in Belgium, but no way to fight back against the MLA request. The law had a gap: he could not appeal the search of his home or the seizure of his documents. Soon after, he was lured to #Dubai, abducted with no extradition process at all, and taken to Rwanda, where he says he was tortured. The documents seized in Belgium and transferred to Rwanda were then used as "evidence" in a sham trial. 🚩One crucial point : under the MLA, Belgium never assessed this so-called "evidence" at all; essentially everything found in his house was handed to the regime. Rwanda's message was simple: "Belgium handed over the evidence, so the case is proven." The dirty work was done in Rwanda; the clean appearance was borrowed from Belgium. In other words, Belgium had unwittingly given a fabricated case the stamp of legitimacy the moment it complied with the MLA request. 🚩This is what should be called "injustice laundering." A regime fabricates a political case at home, then uses international cooperation channels to push it into a Western legal system, where it suddenly looks credible. This is exactly the danger I have spent seven years fighting. #Kazakhstan abused the same MLA system against me, twisting it into a tool of transnational repression.🚩 And my fight changed Belgian law. I am a political refugee in Belgium. After Kazakhstan's secret service failed to abduct me or have me extradited from Belgium, it took my brother hostage on fabricated charges, tortured him, and held him in solitary confinement. Then it sent Belgium an MLA request, asking it to assist in the investigation of the case. Surprisingly, Belgium complied. When my home was searched in 2019 at Kazakhstan's request, by the Federal Police and in the presence of Kazakh agents, Belgian law gave a refugee like me no way to challenge it in court, the same gap that had left Paul Rusesabagina defenceless. But I appealed anyway. In its judgment 1/2022, the Constitutional Court of Belgium recognised that people in my situation must have a right to appeal, and called on Parliament to change the law. On 3 June 2026, the Court of Cassation made my victory final, confirming that Kazakhstan's request against me was politically motivated. (lalibre.be/dernieres-depeche…) 📌This means that today, people targeted this way in Belgium can go to court and challenge a political decision to cooperate with an authoritarian regime. 📌Both cases share the same anatomy. An authoritarian regime dresses up political persecution as an ordinary criminal request, and a democratic state risks becoming the instrument of that repression. The difference is that, thanks to years of litigation, victims in Belgium now have a legal weapon to fight back: the right to appeal that my case secured. 📌The lesson is clear. The #EU must stop letting its legal system be weaponised by regimes like #Kazakhstan and #Rwanda. Legal safeguards are not a technicality. They are what stands between a political dissident and a prison cell and tortures abroad. The fight against transnational repression goes on. #TransnationalRepression #HumanRights 📄 More on the Rusesabagina case (@ClooneyFDN fairness report): cfj.org/wp-content/uploads/2… 📷In the photo: my brother after being tortured in 2018. In an attempt to prove that my brother had not been tortured, the authorities showed him to a select group of local media. However, he was not allowed to show his face. Later, due to the WGAD and international pressure he was released, just as Dr Rusesabagina.

VICTORY‼️ BELGIUM'S HIGHEST COURT RULED IN MY FAVOUR‼️🎉 Yesterday, on 3 June 2026, the Belgian Court of Cassation rejected #Kazakhstan's final appeal in my case. The decision is now final and binding. This case was about the abuse of "mutual legal assistance" (MLA), the system countries use to help each other investigate crimes. Kazakhstan exploited it, dressing up a politically motivated attack on me as an ordinary criminal request to weaponise #Belgium for its transnational repression. The Belgian justice system has now definitively confirmed that Kazakhstan's MLA request was politically motivated, not a genuine criminal matter. The background: #Kazakhstan has tried to silence me for years, putting me on the #INTERPOL Most Wanted list, fabricating criminal complaints, and trying to have me abducted or extradited from #Belgium. In 2018, its secret service took my brother hostage on fabricated charges. While he was held in solitary confinement and tortured, Kazakhstan asked Belgium to "help" in a criminal case: the very same fabricated case built against him❗️ In October 2019, while I was at the @PACE_News in #Strasbourg speaking about human rights, Belgian police raided my home in #Brussels, bringing #Kazakh agents with them, all at Kazakhstan's MLA request. They seized my phones, computers, every device and my confidential legal files, to be handed to the very regime persecuting me. For more than six years, I fought this in the Belgian courts: ⚖️In 2019, Belgian law gave a refugee like me no right to appeal in such proceedings. I appealed anyway, arguing it was discrimination and a breach of the ECHR and the Belgian #Constitution. The Court of Appeal referred my case to the Constitutional Court. ⚖️ In 2022, the Constitutional Court recognised my right to challenge this cooperation, a right the law did not even provide, and called on Parliament to change the law. ⚖️In 2024, the Indictment Division ruled Kazakhstan had no standing in the proceedings to lift the seizures. ⚖️In 2025, after many twists and turns, the Court of Appeal ruled the October 2019 searches were politically motivated and should have been refused. It ordered the seizures lifted, the transmission of my files to Kazakhstan banned, and all copies returned or destroyed. I thought it was over. But… 🚩Kazakhstan appealed to the Court of Cassation, arguing, astonishingly, that the decision had violated KAZAKHSTAN's own right to a fair trial under the Belgian #Constitution & the #ECHR (!!!). It even asked the Court to refer its question to the Constitutional Court of #Belgium. The audacity! 🚩 ⚖️On 3 June 2026, the Court of Cassation declared Kazakhstan's appeal inadmissible for lack of standing and refused to refer its question. 🎉🎉🎉 The message is clear: a foreign regime cannot turn Belgian justice into a weapon of transnational repression! This is far bigger than my case. It is a clear signal that democratic #EU must not be weaponised by authoritarian regimes. To everyone who stood with me, thank you so much! 🫶🫶🫶 The fight against transnational repression goes on. 💪💪💪 lalibre.be/dernieres-depeche…

Congratulations Bota! This huge victory is a powerful reminder that justice can prevail against intimidation, abuse of power, and transnational repression. The World Liberty Congress stands with all those who refuse to be silenced by authoritarian regimes that seek to extend their reach beyond their borders. Every challenge to political persecution strengthens the global movement for freedom and democratic accountability. #TransnationalRepression #HumanRights

Digital control is expanding through surveillance, debanking, KYC databases, internet shutdowns and financial repression. Builders and activists are creating an emerging freedom tech stack of private payments, resilient communication, spyware research, peer to peer funding and practical education. My latest piece in @Forbes features @CashuBTC, @citizenlab, @hodlhodl, @HRF, @OsloFF, Bitchat, Agora, Nostr and Bitcoin. With insights from @Farida_N @jsrailton @callebtc @leopoldolopez and @AnyaChekhovich. Read the full article: forbes.com/sites/digital-ass…

Free Victoire Ingabire! Free all Rwandan Political Prisoners!! Hasta la Victoire! 🔥

Amazing #Tibetan music at @OsloFF #FreeTibet