Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁

Also: kitties! 😻🐈

in the morning but it gradually became pretty hot by midday/afternoon. The breakfast served here is delicious (especially the Moroccan coffee).

Traversed the Souk Semmarine in the Medina & the Jemaa El-Fnaa square. Also prayed at the beautiful Koutoubia mosque (which is over 1,000 years old)

Morocco update: we reached Marrakech yesterday evening after a short flight, it took a bit of a while to locate our Riad (a traditional Moroccan villa?/house converted into a sort of hotel) as it’s situated in one of the many maze like narrow alleyways (very quiet here though!). It was quite chilly

Finishing off last minute pre-flight prep for Morocco, flight is in a few hours, feeling the usual mixture of pre-flight nerves and excitement 🥲

"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain

🔴 BREAKING: A Palestinian journalist detained in Israel’s Sde Teiman camp was raped and subjected to sexual torture — including assault carried out by a trained dog — according to new testimony released by the Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPC). The Center calls it one of the most severe crimes documented against journalists in Israeli custody. “Whoever didn’t die inside came out broken forever,” the journalist told PJPC. ⸻ The Assault The journalist, identifying himself only as “Yahya” for his family’s safety, said soldiers dragged him and seven others to a secluded section of Sde Teiman. There, Israeli soldiers stood by as the group was subjected to collective sexual assault, with some soldiers filming the attack and mocking the victims. All detainees were restrained, blindfolded, and denied any legal or humanitarian protection.

Doctors who reviewed Yahya’s case say the trauma caused a complete psychological collapse lasting more than two months. His symptoms are consistent with acute PTSD. ⸻ A Systematic Torture Regime Yahya spent 20 months in Israeli prisons — three months in Sde Teiman and one in Ofer — and insists the assault was not an isolated incident but part of a systematic torture policy. He described the use of dogs as deliberate, internationally prohibited torture aimed at inflicting total psychological destruction. He detailed interrogations that included: •Blindfolding and full restraints •Transfers in military trucks between sites •Physical and psychological beatings •Starvation and sleep deprivation •Denial of medical care •Religious insults •Electric shocks The torture intensified after soldiers learned he was a journalist. He was accused of spreading “misinformation” and told he could face life imprisonment for his media work.

Conditions Inside Sde Teiman Yahya described extreme overcrowding, filthy cells with no hygiene, disease outbreaks, and constant shortages of food and water. Prayer was banned. He said he witnessed detainees — including doctors and academics — die under unexplained circumstances. “We spent autumn and winter in worn-out summer clothes, sleeping on the tiles,” he said. “We entered these detention centers alive, and came out with exhausted bodies and broken souls.” Israeli forces arrested him on March 18, 2024, during the storming of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, where he was reporting in full press gear. ⸻ A Crime Under International Law The PJPC says the assault constitutes: •Rape and sexual torture under the 1984 Convention Against Torture •A war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute •Potentially a crime against humanity under Article 7, if the systematic nature is confirmed

•A grave violation of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions •A direct attack on journalists protected as civilians under international humanitarian law The use of dogs in sexualized torture, the Center said, is “one of the most extreme forms of prohibited abuse.” ⸻ Calls for Accountability The PJPC is demanding: •Immediate submission of the case to the International Criminal Court •An urgent, independent international investigation •Prosecution of those responsible under universal jurisdiction •Immediate medical and psychological treatment for survivors •Protection for witnesses and journalists at risk “These crimes carry no statute of limitations,” the Center concluded. Testimonies from Palestinian journalists now represent cumulative evidence of a deliberate, systematic torture regime inside Israeli prisons — one that demands international criminal accountability.

🔴 BREAKING: A Palestinian journalist detained in Israel’s Sde Teiman camp was raped & subjected to sexual torture — including assault carried out by a trained dog — according to new testimony released by the Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPC). The Center calls it one of the most...

watching this now despite it being a Hindi classic. Sometimes the wait pays off!

Looks like the copy of Mother India which hit the Criterion Channel today is a new restoration? It opens with the Criterion and Janus film logos, is a HD print and is in the original 4:3 aspect ratio. The versions that are ubiquitous have a stretched ratio and are low quality. MAJOR. Glad I put off

the djazz.se link is so good! I’ve been using that to send books to my kobo wirelessly

I did quickly toggle on the dark mode while just going through the settings but I haven’t tried it at night yet

In general, the UI is so much nicer than the Kindle UI

Bolaño). Also sideloaded a few of my own e-books. Already find myself reading on it more. The adjustable warm light setting is great.

Size is very nifty for travel too, got a case with it. I’m going to Morocco in a few days with family and I’ll be taking it along for some in flight reading.

Very pleased with my new Kobo e-reader. Like how the OS is not locked in (I was able to download and add a few fonts), especially compared to Kindles I’ve had in the past. Bought a couple of books on sale (Latin American fiction - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, and 2666 by Roberto

still broadcast on British TV (there was the weird measures of censoring their voices but the words and speeches were still broadcast in Britain)

Not that it justifies Britain’s colonial occupation of NI but at least this made more sense in a domestic context

This is all over a foreign country!!

The British psychosis and domestic repression over PA has been truly insane when you consider that even during the Troubles, when Britain was in an active war with Northern Ireland (including IRA retaliatory bombing on England), high ranking Irish republican leaders and Irish political parties were

feels like theyre not the only ones who need it explained to them that bombing civilians is actually bad

#Syria

Next year, Shabana Mahmood is going to have you tortured at a black site if you’re caught performative reading Sally Rooney novels on the tube

Infantino and Ceferin, leaders of FIFA and UEFA respectively, have been formally accused of aiding war crimes and crimes against humanity in a filing to the International Criminal Court.

You love to see it.

BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has said the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed "in its entirety," as tensions between the countries escalate aje.io/cw5jnm

Around the world in melodrama: 9 countries, 45 essential films From Hollywood tearjerkers to Chinese tales of passion and loss, melodrama has shaped cinema across cultures. Our trip around the globe explores how filmmakers worldwide have embraced heightened emoti...

I contributed the entry on Japan for this BFI intro to melodrama from around the world to coincide with their ongoing season, Too Much: Melodrama on Film

THAT LITTLE CAT FACE oh my godddddd what a hero

Wow. That’ll show her to…

*checks notes*

Advocate on behalf of activists targeting UK government and military complicity in the mass murder of civilians

Box Office: ‘Kokuho’ Becomes Japan’s Top-Grossing Live-Action Film Ever Lee Sang-il’s Kokuho — a nearly three-hour period drama about the cloistered world of traditional kabuki theater — has defied all reasonable expectations to become Japan’s top-grossing domestic live-action film of all time.

Lee Sang-il’s Kokuho — a nearly three-hour period drama about the cloistered world of traditional kabuki theater — has defied all reasonable expectations to become Japan’s top-grossing domestic live-action film of all time.

It's a pretty consistent theme that the United States is constitutionally incapable of forgiving any foreign nation for humiliating them militarily and so in proceeding decades, bullies them and their people just for kicks (NK, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, etc.). An adolescent country with a big stick.

the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity

sister as I fell off reading so I guess I’ve come full circle now. Went for a Kobo this time round because they have a lot of great reviews plus I wanted to opt for the Amazon alternative. I’m really enjoying this Wuthering Heights reread and I can’t wait to pick it up on an e-reader instead 😌

innovations of technology as the experience is so similar to reading a physical book, except you can still read in different light settings (with the added backlight) and you save on shelf space as e-readers have the capacity for storing thousands of books. I ended up giving that paperwhite to my

Bought an e-reader after doing some research (stumped for the Kobo Clara BW!) because I was growing pretty tired of reading on my phone when not reading one of my paperbacks/hardbacks due to the eye strain (esp at night). I had a kindle paperwhite years ago and e-ink is one of the coolest modern

Well done to all those who have tirelessly campaigned to scrap the 2-child benefit cap.

Today, the government admitted it had been keeping thousands of children in poverty for no reason whatsoever.

Next, tax wealth, reverse austerity and end the privatisation rip-off!

A copy of Persuasion by Jane Austen Jacket painting: Woman at Window, 1822, by Casper David Friedrich.

Really taken with how gorgeous Everyman’s Library Editions are. Solid binding, silk ribbon markers, beautiful jacket art. The paper quality is so smooth, making it a pleasure to touch and hold.