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When helping refugees becomes terrorism

My government is using anti-terrorism laws to prosecute me for helping refugees, while the same international community that created refugee law stays silent about this obvious perversion of its intent.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're experiencing how humanitarian principles can be criminalized using the very security frameworks that international law helps legitimate.

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“Where Are You with International law and its limits?”

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