Torture. Arbitrary detention. Destruction of religious sites. These abuses, too often suffered by #Muslims#, #Tibetans#, #Christians#, and #FalunGong# practitioners, are well-documented facts. On the Int’l Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, the world must unequivocally condemn China’s grave violations of #ReligiousFreedom#.

The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry. THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT is out now:

"He's just constantly tortured." IPP Justice for All campaigner Cherrie Nichol, whose brother served 21 years in prison for GBH, tells @BarbaraGSerra she lost her brother many times physically and mentally during his sentence. 📺 Sky 501