@maitelsadany.bsky.social
Human Rights Lawyer | Executive Director at TIMEP @timep.bsky.social
ICYMI Egyptian economic researcher Abdel Khaleq Farouk has been sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of spreading false news following a procedurally problematic trial where lawyers were denied access to the case files www.madamasr.com/2025/10/04/n...
07.10.2025 08:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TIMEP welcomes the UN Human Rights Council vote to renew the mandate of the independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan for another year. The extension will allow the body to continue to gather evidence and testimonies of grave abuses, filling a critical documentation gap in Sudan.
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Some other great pieces at the Middle East Institute Arab pop art exhibit.
(🎨: Chant Avedissian, Rana Salam)
If you're in DC, be sure to drop by the Middle East Institute to see the new Arab pop exhibit which will be there till January 23, 2026.
(🎨: Yusuf Alahmed, Rana Salam, and Yasmine Nasser Diaz)
The Trump admin's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Syria affects the lives of thousands of Syrians in the United States.
What options do those impacted have? What resources are out there for them? Don't miss this session tomorrow: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🗳️ Join @sjac-info.bsky.social, @arabreforminit.bsky.social, @timep.bsky.social, JFL, STJ, and Dawlaty today for a virtual conversation on Syria's temporary parliamentary system. You can tune in both English or Arabic!
It's not too late to register and join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗳️ What is the political context in which Syria's parliamentary elections are taking place?
🗳️ What do these elections mean for building trust in the government? What do they mean for Syria's national sovereignty?
🗳️ How are women and other underrepresented groups participating?
🗳️ Today at 9 am EST, we'll be chatting about Syria's upcoming parliamentary elections (the first post-Assad elections) set to take place this Sunday. Learn more about:
🗳️ What does the electoral process look like in practice?
🗳️ Who is "running" and how did they get there?
ICE is conducting illegal raids on workplaces.
One US citizen was detained TWICE despite showing his REAL-ID. Agents told him the ID was fake and held him for 20 to 30 mins each time. Now he's joined a class-action lawsuit to challenge these practices www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...
“Beirut’s Public Prosecutor ultimately charged Riad Salameh—along with his brother Raja and his assistant Marianne Hoayek—with crimes including public funds embezzlement, forgery, illicit enrichment, money laundering, and tax evasion.
…Salameh has obstructed legal proceedings since then.”
#Lebanon
🔔 Join TIMEP Executive Director @maitelsadany.bsky.social as she moderates a timely online panel discussion tomorrow, Friday, October 3, at 9:00 AM EST, ahead of Syria's parliamentary elections.
Register here and tune into the discussion: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Today, October 1st, would have been Sarah Hegazi's 36th birthday.
Thinking of those from whom she was taken and those whose lives she impacted during her short time on this earth and the years since.
Yes!! Perfect line for this.
02.10.2025 00:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the last two days, I've watched two docuseries on Netflix, "The Program" (on the troubled teen industry) and "Bad Influence" (on kid influencing), and the common thread there is that parenting is serious business and not everyone is equipped for it.
01.10.2025 23:57 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
In the lead-up to Syria's first parliamentary elex post-Assad, I'll be moderating an event that helps make sense of the vote + what to expect.
Don't miss it SJAC, @timep.bsky.social, @arabreforminit.bsky.social, Dawlaty, Syrians for Truth & Justice, Justice for Life us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
⚖️ The 161 page opinion is filled with interesting legal analysis and insights. Critically, it re-establishes key areas of law that the Trump admin has sought to erase.
Judge Young has yet to rule on the remedies. He will weigh in on them after another hearing in the future.
⚖️ Significantly, the ruling states that noncitizens who are in the United States lawfully have the same free speech rights as citizens. The Trump admin has attempted to claim otherwise, but the judge explained this is a distinction not "found in our history or jurisprudence."
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⚖️ In a landmark ruling, today a Reagan-appointed federal judge found that the Trump administration had violated the Constitution by using the threat of deportation to systematically silence noncitizens in academia who protested in support of Palestinians storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
01.10.2025 00:40 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Today, September 30 marks a decade since Russia intervened in Syria, giving the Assad regime a brutal lifeline at a time when it was near defeat and contributing to proxy war that upended the lives of so many innocent Syrians.
May the victims of Russia's crimes see justice in a free Syria.
Breaking: A government shutdown is now imminent after the Senate failed to pass stop funding bills.
30.09.2025 23:30 — 👍 1926 🔁 361 💬 90 📌 30He really was. Thank you for the kind note.
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One month without Tiger. 💔
There is no heartbreak that is quite like the loss of a furry little sidekick.
🔔 In the lead-up to parliamentary elections in Syria, TIMEP Executive Director @maitelsadany.bsky.social will be moderating a timely online panel discussion this Friday, October 3, at 9:00 AM EST.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
On Friday, former Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh was released from custody after paying $14 million in bail.
So why was he in detention in the first place? And what charges is he facing? @timep.bsky.social's new resource lays it all out: timep.org/2025/09/26/a...
⚖️ Earlier this month, French judicial authorities issued a warrant for Assad in a case involving the 2012 bombing of the Homs press center where American and French journalists Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik were killed.
Assad is now officially wanted by both Syria and France.
⚖️ Today, an investigative judge in Damascus issued an arrest warrant in absentia for former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on charges of premeditated murder, torture leading to death, and deprivation of liberty related to the 2011 Daraa incidents sana.sy/en/local/226...
27.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 28 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Pressure works.
Following efforts by employees, investors, civil society, and good journalism, @microsoft.com has terminated the Israeli military’s access to a technology it used to operate a surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian phone calls www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
It was a pleasure to be in Ottawa this week for the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy's 5th Middle East Strategy Forum #MESF2025, where I spoke about Syria's historic transition following the fall of Assad, with a focus on the steps that the government can take to deliver a 'Syria for all Syrians.'
26.09.2025 20:53 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If you're following Lebanon, you've absolutely heard the name Riad Salameh, the former Central Bank governor complicit in multiple financial crimes.
So what are the cases that've been brought against Salameh in Lebanon? Don't miss @timep.bsky.social's new resource.
