asimqureshi.bsky.social
Research Director at CAGE International. Author of Rules of the Game: Detention Deportation Disappearance (2009), A Virtue of Disobedience (2019), When Only God Can See: The Faith Muslim Political Prisoners (2024); and editor of I Refuse to Condemn (2020).
👤 Joined on 14 November 2024
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@asimqureshi.bsky.socialI do not recognise the supposed 'right' of any human to stop any other human from moving as they like. I don't recognise the imaginary 'borders' invented by authoritarians and worshiped by idiots. I reject my tax money being spent on employing thugs to man these borders.
Show PostFed up with electoralism? Looking for a better way to engage politically? This is an adaptation of an older subMedia zine that serves as a good introduction to direct action. 🧵1/10
Show PostAppreciate you saying that so much Asim. I chose that site because of its history with the extraordinary rendition programme - that place will stay with me for a long time.
Show PostAt the infamous Palestine branch in Damascus, several former detainees who were brutally tortured there are now guarding the facility. What will happen to this site of so much horror will say a lot about the Syria's future. My piece w. Obaida Hamad. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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