The new Linux phone from Jolla & its benefits? ⛵ :linux:
◉Sailfish OS - the only independent commercial mobile OS
◉Sailfish is NOT 100% closed source - Jolla plans to open the remaining blobs
◉More "Linuxy" than Android; Qt / Wayland / filesystem
◉Free of Google / Apple
◉Use Android compatibility in case an :android: app is needed
◉Jolla is a Finnish company - 🇫🇮 / 🇮🇸 are considered most trustworthy nations in Europe
Wow, I hadn't heard of this. Thank you very much for sharing this.
It's very interesting to also see that there had already been several reports in 2018/2019 (Human Rights Watch/Amnesty International), calling directly Booking.com to stop (something that Airbnb then actually did).
Des dizaines de milliers de personnes dont des enfants—jugées sur leur seule couleur de peau comme pouvant être des migrants—sont arbitrairement enlevées et abandonnées dans le désert chaque année.
For Dutch speakers, I highly recommend this article.
It's very detailed.
They also give the example of Timothy Hucks, an #American guy from New York whose crime is to be black. Timothy simply left his flat in Morocco to buy some booze. He got abducted by Moroccan security forces, who decided that, no, he is not American, and dumped him far in the desert with others—all black people.
Some quotes translated from that article from Trouw:
"At the end of 2023, the European Parliament expressed its concerns about these practices in a report, writing that migrants were subjected to “systematic and serious human rights violations” such as “arbitrary arrests, detentions, violence, including torture” and “collective expulsions to Senegal and Mali”.
Despite criticism from its own parliament, the @EUCommission decided to ignore this warning and increase its aid to the country."
1/3
"The President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, described the July agreement with Tunisia as a model for future agreements with other countries."
"Tunisia's security forces, including the police & national guard, have been trained by Germany and European agencies over the years and are the backbone of operations (..). They cordon off the streets en masse in towns where large numbers of migrants live and transport them to the desert."
"In the group, two women are pregnant, a young boy with an inflamed Achilles tendon has no choice but to walk an average of 25 kilometres a day anyway. "
They are not given any water of course. Walk or die there.
"Not everyone is abandoned in the desert by the authorities (...). Five men tell how they were sold by security forces to border guards from neighbouring Libya."
"One of the Libyan commanders later told Moussa that he had bought them for 20 dinars, less than €4 per person."
Here, the @EUCommission resembles the worst multinational corporations — trying to evade its responsibilities by simply subcontracting its human right violations.
Several hundreds of MILLIONS € are being spent on this.
An International Court of Justice ought to look into this.
As the Dutch newspaper Trouw wrote this morning, this is only the first article on this topic.
More will come.
🇸🇮 "War crimes & crimes against humanity committed on the territory of #Israel & #Palestine from at least 7 October 2023 must be prosecuted independently and impartially regardless of the perpetrators. Accountability is crucial to prevent atrocities and to guarantee peace."
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia