“Prosecuting the Powerful” (2025). ex @independent @hrw @amnesty @freefromtorture. Other books: Russia, Germany, creative protest. Now mostly at other place
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Steve Crawshaw 🧡 retweeted
6 Feb 2025
Putting a country's leader on trial once seemed unimaginable, but as @stevecrawshaw describes the possibilities of justice have been transformed . . .
‖ #ProsecutingThePowerful is out today! Congratulations Steve. Buy your copy here: brnw.ch/21wQw3n
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Steve Crawshaw 🧡 retweeted
5 Feb 2025
I'm looking forward to reading this v timely book by @stevecrawshaw who gave an inspiring speech last night about the moral courage it takes to bring war crimes perpetrators to justice. I woke up to media hesitating to call Trump's plan for #Gaza what it is - a war crime.
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24 Jan 2025
I am mostly now at the Other Place. But/and: many thanks @KenRoth !, and back at you: I look forward very much to reading yours on partly intersecting themes in difficult times
23 Jan 2025
In his new book, "Prosecuting the Powerful," @SteveCrawshaw traces the history of international justice and shows why, despite inevitable transgressions, the possibility of bringing perpetrators to justice is growing. theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
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10 Dec 2024
Thank you to so many people who helped make this book what it is. Out 6 February — more about this in weeks and months to come, in the other place.
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18 Oct 2024
Moving memories of the brilliant & generous Paul Lowe, photographer for the ages. RIP
17 Oct 2024
Paul Lowe will, naturally, be remembered for his work and the quality and significance of it. His outstanding contribution, as an award-winning photojournalist and as an academic, has, after all, left a significant legacy.
Read more: balkaninsight.com/2024/10/16…
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Steve Crawshaw 🧡 retweeted
30 Jul 2024
This one was tough to write. I’ve edited Kim for more than a decade, with him covering all corners of the world. His job was never to make mine easy - he was always the first to head to a frontline. But he did so with humour and his reporting was superb.
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30 Jul 2024
This is such horribly shocking news. generous fearless brilliant, will be so much missed independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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26 Jul 2024
Madness left behind, finally. Amazing that any British government could ever have thought blocking justice was a good idea. theguardian.com/law/article/…
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26 Jul 2024
This is SUCH an important call by @YasmineAhmed001 @hrw — extraordinary that current govt is still lost in Sunak morasse of challenging (British) chief prosecutor who seeks Gaza indictments & justice at ICC theguardian.com/global-devel…
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22 Jul 2024
A brilliant book, a brilliant colleague — please come join us for @PearsonElaine wisdom, experience and hope. Looking forward to this! , so much to talk about for sure
22 Jul 2024
I'll be speaking about all things Asia, human rights, @hrw and writing books in London this Wednesday July 24th, 6pm at the Conduit - in conversation with the wonderful @stevecrawshaw. Do come along if you're in London. Register here: share-eu1.hsforms.com/1KIzdL…
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Steve Crawshaw 🧡 retweeted
20 May 2024
Western liberal politicians and media like to blame Netanyahu for everything that's wrong in Israel. That is a false and dangerous notion. All Zionist "opposition" parties (Gantz, Lapid) and President Herzog condemning Khan just shows Israelis either deny or justify war crimes
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15 May 2024
Huge congratulations to @Trial and all those they have worked with to get this result — important not just for itself but what it can herald for future
15 May 2024
🚨BREAKING: Ousman Sonko, former #Gambian Interior Minister under Yahya Jammeh, has been sentenced by the #Swiss Federal Criminal Court to 20 years in prison for #crimesagainsthumanity.
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26 Apr 2024
Read and share this thread… brilliant opportunity for talented young journalist, in memory of generous-spirited genius Rupert Cornwell @Independent. not-to-be-missed…
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Steve Crawshaw 🧡 retweeted
16 Nov 2023
This photo from Vivian Silver’s memorial service. 💔
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18 Mar 2024
Powerful must-read thread by Ukrainian Nobel laureate — too much of this is too often ignored
17 Mar 2024
I would recommend Western politicians to watch Putin's address to the Federal Assembly. It becomes clear who Russia is fighting against and what the next steps will be. 1/12
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10 Mar 2024
This essay by @TobiasBuckFT is one of the most brilliant essays on Germany, memory, & identity that you can or will read. Just extraordinary on.ft.com/3IuZG84
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5 Mar 2024
Love this so much!, from my brilliant former colleagues at @FreefromTorture, pure madness brilliantly distilled (and stoppable, obviously)
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Steve Crawshaw 🧡 retweeted
27 Feb 2024
My colleague, the head of the human rights center "Memorial," 70-year-old Oleg Orlov, has just been sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in a Russian prison for his human rights activities. 1/4
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Steve Crawshaw 🧡 retweeted
24 Feb 2024
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began two years ago, the most useful thing I've done is this lecture series on Ukrainian history.
Thanks to Yale for making it public.
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