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Landmark victory in UK Supreme Court today on case of Bahrain hacking dissidents’ computers in Britain @humanrightsfirst.org @suchitauppal.bsky.social @jongambrell.bsky.social www.humanrightsfirst.org/library/uk-s...

Why is there an outbreak of street protests in Ukraine? My colleague @suchitauppal.bsky.social at @humanrightsfirst.org explains why in this brief piece @glushko.bsky.social @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social www.humanrightsfirst.org/library/expl...

#speirgorm

It’s 1.20am & I’m in a bomb shelter in Kyiv that’s filling up fast as the city is under intense attack from Russian missiles @humanrightsfirst.org

My latest for Irish America magazine on Irish Kharkiv @glushko.bsky.social @humanrightsfirst.org @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social @barrymalone.bsky.social @museumfreederry.bsky.social www.irishamerica.com/2026/06/ukra...

How fibre optic drones threaten humanitarian activists here at the eastern front of the war on Ukraine www.humanrightsfirst.org/library/how-... @zsk.bsky.social @humanrightsfirst.org @siobhanogrady.bsky.social @fulelo.bsky.social

My piece for Irish America magazine on this week’s racist violence in n Ireland @finucanecentre.bsky.social @humanrightsfirst.org www.irishamerica.com/2026/06/riot...

Suddenly everyone is an expert on Northern Ireland again. Please listen to people who actually know what’s going on, such as @patrick-corrigan.bsky.social #speirgorm

Thanks to Irish America for running this piece on the anniversary of Bobby Kennedy’s 1968 assassination. So much has happened since then, & since my 1995 biography of him was released (yes Kids, I wrote it on that typewriter) @humanrightsfirst.org www.irishamerica.com/2020/06/bobb...

Thanks Irish America magazine for this on 1972 Belfast Springhill/Westrock killings. A coroner has ruled British soldiers shot dead 3 children, a priest & a local man. We @humanrightsfirst.org supported the families in their long campaign for truth #speirgorm www.irishamerica.com/2026/05/belf...

Full coroner’s court verdict now available on Springhill Westrock killings when British soldiers shot dead five civilians one evening in Belfast in 1972; 640-page ruling here share.google/hUe8AKl5k2l3... #speirgorm

My new book Defiant: Profiles of Resistance is out in October. Across Europe, as rising repression reshapes daily life, local people helping others are targeted and criminalized for exposing corruption, helping refugees and acting out of kindness. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Defian...

Spending the night on the pavement outside the Bahraini embassy in London, marking the 15th anniversary of arrest of Human Rights Defender Abdulhadi Al Khawaja. He & others unjustly jailed in 2011 for peaceful protests remain in prison @maryamalkhawaja.bsky.social @nickkristof.bsky.social

In “Constant Crisis,” a report on Lebanon for @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social at the end of 2025, local Human Rights Defenders told me how they would respond when Israeli attacks resumed: “Every organisation has to become a frontline provider…” @kstockwood.bsky.social www.gc4hr.org/new-report-e...

Piece by @suchitauppal.bsky.social & myself for Activist Lawyer on the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We asked local activists in Ukraine about long-term human rights challenges. More here @humanrightsfirst.org www.activistlawyer.com/post/on-anni...

Great to see my book Black & Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland & Black America featured at the @museumfreederry.bsky.social Thanks to @annumayor.bsky.social for taking the pic

54 years this week since Bloody Sunday in Derry, when British soldiers killed 13 unarmed protestors. Joint @finucanecentre.bsky.social & @humanrightsfirst.org event at @museumfreederry.bsky.social; on Sun Feb 1; my latest here for Irish America mag #speirgorm www.irishamerica.com/2025/01/soli...

My new book out in October, published by Humanitas Media, about how people across Europe are resisting injustice locally

Such great news about Greenland, because this guy can famously be relied on to keep his word and not change his mind

As Dingle win the all Ireland club championship in Dublin with last kick of the game in extra time, this is Paddy Bawn’s pub in Dingle #speirgorm

Thanks to Irish America magazine for reupping this piece for #MLKDay about my book Black & Green, on ties between the civil rights movements in the US & n Ireland @museumfreederry.bsky.social #Speirgorm www.irishamerica.com/2024/09/blac...

Bahrain targets peaceful political opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif again. The dictatorship is terrified of articulate dissent because it exposes its fragility, & its reflexive response is repression @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social @mideastdc.org @jongambrell.bsky.social

Back with local activists in Kharkiv this week, evacuating civilians from the front line of Russia’s war on Ukraine @mdminear.bsky.social @humanrightsfirst.org @kateinharkiv.bsky.social @brams884.bsky.social

Kharkiv today: Graveside memorial for Human Rights Defender Slava Ilchenko, killed by a Russian drone Xmas Day while evacuating civilians from the front line humanrightsfirst.org/library/at-k... @glushko.bsky.social @elizlanders.bsky.social @siobhanogrady.bsky.social @laurenvillagran.bsky.social

Midnight here in Ukraine as 2025 turns into 2026:

Am in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine. From here, Trump’s optimism for an end to the war looks delusional @humanrightsfirst.org @glushko.bsky.social humanrightsfirst.org/library/ukra...

Today, Christmas Day, a Russian drone killed evacuation volunteer Vyacheslav Ilchenko from Kharkiv. I knew him, & went with him to evacuate vulnerable civilians from the front line of the war on Ukraine. He was a great guy who has saved hundreds of lives @glushko.bsky.social @humanrightsfirst.org

My new report for @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social on human rights in Lebanon in 2025: Constant Crisis With support from @ifex.org & The Maharat Foundation www.gc4hr.org/new-report-e...