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Riverway to the Sea
@riverwaylaw
Equipping lawyers, activists & communities with the necessary tools and understanding to challenge Zionism around the globe both in the courtrooms and beyond.
United Kingdom
Joined October 2016
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    From courtrooms to classrooms, from Britain to the globe, we're expanding. Riverway Law is now Riverway to the Sea, a legal and educational front against Zionism, apartheid, and genocide. A new legal firm is being created to take this fight global. We train, equip, and stand
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    The Home Office has refused to allow the elderly father of a NHS frontline consultant to remain in the UK despite evidence he will be destitute if sent back. His son is treating covid patients day & night and now has the added pressure of fighting his father’s appeal in court.
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    Today, our legal team submitted the application to the Home office to remove Hamas from the banned list of organisations under UK Counter terrorism powers You can read the full legal application here: hamascase.com
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    At our press conference last week, @fahadansari started by sharing Palestinian survivor testimony describing the violence they faced at the hands of armed Zionist militias, led by individuals who would later go on to become leaders of the state of Israel. This was not testimony
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    On the Blood Brothers podcast, @FranckMagennis spoke to @DillyHussain88 about the urgent need to shift the narrative around Palestine. Franck explains how he and the legal team were directed to help rehumanise not just Hamas but, more crucially, the Palestinian people who have
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    Dr Sheikh Haitham Al-Haddad joined us at the press conference, and he contributed with expert testimony to our client's application to end the UK ban on the Islamic Resistance Movement. Sheikh Haitham provided an expert report on dignity in Islam, and he drew upon his own
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    Franck Magennis explains that the timing of the application is driven by the current moment of a genocide unfolding, carried out by an apartheid regime whose credibility has collapsed. With Israel increasingly isolated and its foundational ideology of Zionism in decline, the
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    Franck Magennis speaks at a press conference where a legal application was launched to lift the UK ban on Hamas. He outlines Israel’s growing isolation on the international stage, pointing to the ICC arrest warrant issued against Netanyahu. As a result, he can no longer
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    Franck Magennis spoke to LBC yesterday about the legal application we have put in. He stressed the importance of speaking about this issue whilst maintaining the dignity of Palestinians that the interviewer failed to do. He can't admit that this is a genocide. "We're going to
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    Britain’s proscription of the Islamic resistance movement places it in violation of its international obligations to prevent genocide. By banning a group that expert accounts have called the most effective form of resistance against brutal Israeli occupation, the UK effectively
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    Today @fahadansari of @riverwaylaw launches an important legal application to @YvetteCooperMP to deproscribe the organisation Harakat al-Muqawwamah al-Islamiyyah (H*mas) from the list of banned (proscribed) organisations in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000.
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    Out client has rather humbly asked us to clarify that he does not treat covid patients “day and night” as in the original tweet.
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    Fahad Ansari, one of the lawyers behind the legal application, explains why the current ban on Hamas shuts down nuanced conversations. People should be able to speak openly about the group, but the proscription makes that nearly impossible.
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