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I told Al Jazeera English why I believe Israel’s announcement that it is investigating some of its own crimes—including the killing of Hind Rajab—is nothing but a masquerade designed to deflect accountability and preserve impunity. Check the HRF statement https://t.co/ll1pmYRfit https://t.co/eOJNpghkdp #Israel #HumanRights #Accountability #IL

I told Al Jazeera English why I believe Israel’s announcement that it is investigating some of its own crimes—including the killing of Hind Rajab—is nothing but a masquerade designed to deflect accountability and preserve impunity. https://t.co/UjSdC0JmWg #Israel #Accountability #Impunity #IL

This sounds very serious - judging by the scope and level of officials mentioned in this announcement such an anti-corruption operation could become huge news in #Ukraine, with yet unknown but potentially severe political consequences. One to watch.👇 #Ukraine #Corruption #Politics #UA

⚠ Monday Brief ⚠ 🇺🇸 #Trump's Net Approval Rating Remains Close to Record Low 🇨🇳 Focus on Chinese Data and Potential Announcements 🇯🇵 Odds of a September #BOJ Hike Have Doubled since Late July ... https://t.co/AOUUdhEfmx #Trump #BOJ #ChineseData #US #CN #JP

My guess: the big differentiator in modern software development will not be "taste", but sustained attention. Most software built quickly with AI will follow an "easy come, easy go" pattern and be abandoned shortly after announcement. #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #SustainedAttention #Nospecificcountrycodesarefoundinthetweet.

My Name Is on a File On a case I was never summoned to, and a price I do not pay alone By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands | July 2026 In 2024, I learned that my name had been entered into a case. Case number 1282. Listed as a "defendant." I was never summoned, and no one called to tell me the exact charge. I found out the way anyone in my position finds out — from a colleague, from a quick search of my own name, from another journalist who called to ask: "Did you know your name is on file?" I do not want to overdramatise the story. No cinematic manhunt, no car tailing me down a European street. What happened is simpler and crueller than that: a state thousands of kilometres away opened a file bearing my name, without my knowledge, without any way for me to defend myself within it, without even anyone standing before me to answer. The charge is not based on any act I committed. The charge is that I wrote. An article, an opinion, a tweet — it makes no difference. What matters is that the words were read, and someone decided they were dangerous enough to become a case number. I. How Do You Know You Are Accused? This question seems like a technicality, but it is in fact the heart of the whole matter. I received no official letter. No lawyer knocked on my door carrying documents. No one from an embassy or consulate called to inform me. The knowledge itself arrived by accident — a passing search, or a message from a friend asking: "Where did you see your name?" This small detail reveals something far larger than a mere administrative oversight. When you are not formally notified that you are accused, you do not even have a clear starting point from which to act. You do not know exactly when the file was opened. You do not know who decided to include your name. You do not know whether a hearing was held, a decision was made, or even whether an investigation took place at all. You simply discover, one day, that you have become "accused" within a legal system that never gave you the chance to know its rules. This ambiguity is not a flaw in the procedure; it is the procedure itself. A case opened without a clear announcement, with no trial date set, performs its full function even while suspended indefinitely. It does not need a conviction to frighten; it is enough that it simply exists. II. The Charge That Needs No Crime In conventional legal systems, a case begins with an act: theft, assault, fraud — something material that can be proven or disproven. But my case, like many others, began with a word. I stole nothing. I assaulted no one. I incited no violence, called for no chaos. I wrote an opinion. I analysed a policy. I criticised a decision. That is the entirety of it. And yet this simple act — writing — became the basis for a legal file bearing a number and classified under a security heading. The paradox is that this kind of charge requires no fixed standard. What counts as "dangerous" today may not be tomorrow, and vice versa. There is no published list of forbidden words, no clear criterion distinguishing incitement from opinion. This deliberate ambiguity — or perhaps unintentional, but effective regardless — leaves every writer living in a state of permanent unease: will this sentence be the one that opens a file bearing my name? III. The Real Danger Is Not to Me Many ask me: "Can they reach you in the Netherlands?" The honest answer: no, not directly. I am here, in a country governed by the rule of law, physically protected by Dutch police, and no one can arrest me on the basis of a case in another country absent a valid extradition treaty and supporting facts. This is not my first concern. My real concern is that this case does not target me alone. It targets those around me. My family in Egypt. People walking down the street, opening their front door, with no connection to politics whatsoever — and suddenly someone is asking about them because I wrote a word from here. This is not a threat spoken aloud. No one calls to say: "If you continue, we will do such-and-such." The message arrives without anyone saying it — through the kind of questions asked of my family, through their timing, through the silence that meets me when I try to learn the details. Sometimes it is a "routine" phone call from some office, asking about my place of residence, my activities, or people I am in contact with. None of it is an explicit threat, but the timing alone is enough to deliver the message. This is precisely the mechanism by which this kind of pursuit operates: it does not need to touch me physically to affect me. It is enough to make me know that the people I love are exposed to harm because of what I write. IV. I Am Not an Exception It would be easy for an article like this to turn into a personal complaint, and I am careful that it should not. Case 1282 is not an isolated incident, and if I stay silent about it I become complicit — unintentionally — in concealing a pattern that genuinely exists. There are others like me — far more than me — whose names sit in similar files, some of whom have no platform to speak from as I do. Journalists, activists, even ordinary people who never practised journalism but shared a post or left a comment. Case 1282 is not an exception; it is a method of operation. Someone writes from abroad, someone else decides they are "dangerous," and the matter shifts from opinion to legal file, without a real trial, without even a clear official announcement that a charge exists at all. More dangerously, this pattern is not confined to Egyptians alone, nor to any single country. It is a recurring tactic used by several regimes seeking to pursue voices beyond their borders without bearing the burden of actual proof or a transparent legal process. The open, unannounced file serves the same purpose everywhere: it frightens without convicting, and keeps the writer in a permanent state of tension without ever offering him the chance to defend himself. V. What Has Actually Changed in Me I will not say this made me stronger. The phrase is worn out, usually deployed to prettify a painful experience, and I refuse to do that. What actually happened is simpler and more honest: I began writing more slowly. Not less candidly — I still say what I believe, still criticise what deserves criticism. But I have become more aware that every sentence I write from here may carry a price I am not the only one paying. This awareness slows the writing, not because I am censoring myself out of fear for my own safety, but because I am thinking about who might pay the price on my behalf. And this is precisely the point of such a case, whether intended or a by-product of a broader mechanism. Actual arrest is not required for censorship to function. No summons is required, no trial, not even a clear charge. It is enough to know your name is written on a piece of paper somewhere, to make you think twice before writing the next time. VI. Why I Continue Regardless A reader might ask: if the price is this clear, why keep writing? Would silence not be safer, for you and for your family? The answer is not as heroic as it might sound, but it is honest: because silence does not solve the problem, it postpones and expands it. If I stopped, and others like me stopped, the mechanism that produced Case 1282 would keep operating with no voice to expose it. Files would keep opening, names would keep being entered, families would keep being questioned, with no one outside the circle of direct victims ever knowing this was happening at all. Writing about this experience, for all its risks, is the only way I have to make this pattern visible. When an article like this is published, the file no longer remains a secret between a government body and an isolated writer; it becomes part of a public record that other journalists, human rights organisations, and even international institutions can follow and document. Conclusion: A Price Not Paid Once I am still writing. More slowly than before, but still writing. And Case 1282 remains open, suspended, with no set date for a hearing or a verdict, exactly as it began. This very ambiguity is the message. An authority that opens a file and never closes it, never tries its subject, never even clearly states what the charge is — is not pursuing justice. It is pursuing something else entirely: that everyone who thinks of writing knows the price is possible, even if not certain. And that everyone who has already written carries that price with them wherever they go, however far they travel from the source of the case. This is the true price of a single word: not one arrest at one moment, but a continuous state of uncertainty that lives with you every time you open a blank page to write. Adham Hasanin is an Egyptian journalist and political writer based in the Netherlands.

For years Volkswagen obstructed every possible initiative to protect our industry and economic security. I welcome this announcement, but why did it have to take the company facing closures, redundancies and the loss of markets? #Volkswagen #EconomicSecurity #IndustryProtection #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

#SLC3: Vous l'avez réclamée. Vous l'attendiez. Elle est enfin là : l'annonce officielle de la Saving Lives Con 3. Retrouvez nous les 26 et 27 juin prochains pour cette troisième édition qui promet d'être tout aussi épique que les deux premières. La billetterie et les premières annonces de guests arriveront bientôt. 🚒🚓🚑 / You asked for it. You've been waiting for it. It's finally here: the official announcement for Saving Lives Con 3! Join us on June 26–27 for the third edition of this convention, which promises to be every bit as epic as the first two. Ticket sales and our first guest announcements are coming soon. Stay tuned! 🚒🚓🚑 #SavingLivesCon #Convention #EpicEvent

I'm happy to see this new alternative to Fakebook is growing, but it's not going to be very useful for most people until there are groups. That's the main reason I'm still on FB -- the groups I'm in that cover everything from pottery to gardening to my local community to our city government announcements.

Thank you, Prime Minister @donaldtusk and @Domanski_Andrz for championing Poland's growing role in space. Today's announcement of a new @esa centre marks a major milestone for Poland and for Europe. Together, we're proving that the sky is indeed not the limit. #PolandInSpace #ESA #SpaceMilestone #PL #EU

“Russia will fire 1400 Iskander-M short range ballistic missiles at Ukraine, before the first Ukrainian-made Patriot interceptor will be available for its defense.” On Ukrainian TV, I gave the sobering assessment on the Trump announcement in Ankara. https://t.co/jyFMgSsIwL #Ukraine #Russia #Missiles #RU #UA

The US granting UKR a licence to produce Patriot air defence systems is great news. RUS deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and the UKR population. A strengthened air defence will save countless lives. I hope Trump's announcement is implemented swiftly. #PatriotDefense #Ukraine #Trump #US #UKR #RUS

Today's announcement in Gaza underscores the importance of bringing the Roadmap discussions to a successful conclusion. It is the bridge between declarations and implementation. The sooner agreement is reached on the outstanding implementation provisions, the sooner the @NCAG can #Gaza #Roadmap #PeaceProcess #PS #GZ

Ο ένας κάνει announcement. Άλλοι μιλάνε μόνο αγγλικά. Έχει γίνει και η κούτση Μαρία insider. Ξεκαβαληστε λίγο μωρέ που έχετε ερωτευτεί όλοι μια ψεύτικη περσονα του εαυτού σας. #olympiacosbc #Announcement #Insider #FakePersona

📢 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Oracle AI Trade reveals its AI driven market forecasting platform 🚀 📌 More info: https://t.co/lAh0tTao3s ‌ https://t.co/BgjxXYw8KR #OracleAI #MarketForecasting #AITechnology #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.