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Torture tries to destroy lives. We won't let it. We stand with survivors, providing therapy and support, and fighting for change together.

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🚨BREAKING: This Government's cruel Rwanda Bill has just passed They have shown complete disregard for international law and the UK Supreme Court. It's nothing short of criminal - so we headed to Parliament to set up the crime scene
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BREAKING: a Holocaust survivor just confronted Suella Braverman to say: your hateful language has consequences
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The Home Office is seeking the removal of our video of Joan's exchange with Suella Braverman. But we are standing our ground. The full video is here:
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Rishi Sunak, the new Prime Minister, says he’ll do “whatever it takes” to send refugees to Rwanda. Well - we'll do whatever it takes to STOP that. Who's with us?
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We rebranded the refugee "processing centre" in Manston so everybody knows who's responsible for it.
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BREAKING: @pritpatel has just resigned. We put up this blue plaque in her Witham constituency to show how she'll be remembered.
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🚨BREAKING: We took the government to court on their plans to pushback refugee boats - and we just found out we WON! They’ve backed down 🥳 Today’s victory shows that, when we come together, we CAN beat this government’s toxic anti-refugee agenda.
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🚨BREAKING: WE WON!!! Privilege Style - the airline whose plane was ready to fly to Rwanda in June - has confirmed they WILL NOT fly any refugees to Rwanda! People power WORKS! Now let’s defeat this cruel scheme altogether.
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🚨BREAKING🚨 Nobody will fly to Rwanda tonight 🎉 WE did this together! From protesters on the streets, to ppl chipping in to legal cases, to 1000s of emails & calls We know the govt won't be giving up. So let's give this everything we've got, starting now. Together we can win
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Hey Suella Braverman, your cruel Refugee Ban Bill is in the House of Lords today - so we put up a 🔵 plaque to show how you’ll be remembered
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BREAKING: Suella Braverman’s cruelty towards refugees caused the crisis at the so-called Manston “processing centre”. So we just renamed it in her honour
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The government is trying to get us to take this video down. They'd hate it for you to RT
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Reminder: every single person in one of these cars, fleeing Ukraine to seek safety, is someone just like you. When you’re fleeing for safety there is no time to queue at the embassy. There's no form to fill. A THREAD 🧵 1/
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Almost 5 million people have watched this. The Home Office wanted it taken down
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New Home Secretary @SuellaBraverman just told Conservative party Conference “it would be my dream to see a flight taking migrants to Rwanda by Christmas.” Our dream is to have politicians that treat refugees like human beings - not trade them for cash.
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Those censoring @GaryLineker have clearly forgotten that @SuellaBraverman was told by Holocaust survivor Joan Salter that her language is like the one Joan fled in the 1940s For those with short memories, here’s the video
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We thought the UK stopped trading human beings for cash centuries ago.
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An urgent message from NHS doctor @DrWaheedArian on #WorldRefugeeDay . Projected on Parliament. Sound on.🔊
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We wanted to send a message ahead of the far right demo in Dover today. So we projected it onto the white cliffs. #RiseAboveFear #RefugeesWelcome
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The final stop should be safety. Always. Don’t let this government open the Rwanda line
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BREAKING Yesterday the Home Secretary said she wants refugees on planes to Rwanda by December. Today torture survivors disrupted the world's biggest airline conference to say: STOP THE FLIGHTS 📍World Aviation Festival, Amsterdam
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Real leaders dream of building people up not destroying their lives. #StopTheFlights #RefugeesWelcome
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BREAKING: PADDINGTON’S BEEN ARRESTED 📍 Paddington Station, 9.15am #FreePaddington
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Add your voice to Joan’s and show Suella Braverman we won’t stand for hatred towards refugees Chip in to fund our people powered movement 👇
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BREAKING: Well done to all of you who phoned @TitanAirways today to ask them not to fly refugees to #Rwanda . Together we will always stand with refugees – and together we can win. #StopTheFlights
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MESSAGE FROM THE BARRACKS. My name is Omar. I lived in the barracks for two months. Today I'm using Freedom from Torture's platform to speak to you directly about the crisis of the UK government’s prison camps for refugees. Please share my message. THREAD 1/
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REFUGEES WELCOME REFUGEES WELCOME REFUGEES WELCOME Today. Tomorrow. Always.
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BREAKING: Privilege Style was granted a permit for a flight from Stansted to Kigali, Rwanda at 9.30pm tomorrow, Tuesday 14th. Is this THE flight @privilege757 ? it's not too late to do the right thing - say you won't send refugees to Rwanda #StopTheFlights
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BREAKING: An immigration van, sent to remove people from a Glasgow street, has been surrounded by protesters to block it from leaving. The protesters are shouting: "LET OUR NEIGHBOURS GO!" 💕 One of our team is there and has sent us these photos from this powerful moment.
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How it started: How it’s going:
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Boris Johnson's anti-refugee bill has just passed. But if the government thinks it’s won. It can damn well think again.
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Hey @borisjohnson We wanted to send you a message about Ukraine. So we put it somewhere you couldn’t miss it. Sound on. 📍Westminster Bridge
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@pritipatel @BorisJohnson We put up a 🔵 plaque to show how you’ll be remembered. 📍Witham Town Hall - in your constituency #RefugeesWelcome
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Hi @BorisJohnson . We have a message for you - and we wanted to make sure you heard it loud and clear. So we projected it somewhere you couldn't miss it: Parliament. #BlackLivesMatter From us and @ukblm @JCWI_UK @hopenothate
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Let's be clear: @suellabraverman is demonising people seeking safety with hateful rhetoric that has LONG been recognised as fascist.
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Yusra Mardini, 23, is an Olympic swimmer. She's also a Syrian refugee. As a teenager, she escaped the war in Syria with her sister. Alone, they crossed eight countries & swam for three and a half hours, dragging their boat after their overcrowded dinghy to Lesbos capsized. 1/
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🚨Breaking: new Home Secretary @SuellaBraverman just told Tory Party Conference she will ban anyone arriving across the Channel from claiming asylum. Cruel. Barbaric. Unpopular. And against international law. We will fight it with everything we’ve got.
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BREAKING: The first people seeking safety have been taken onboard the Bibby Stockholm barge. Today and every day we will stand up against cruel policies, whether that's housing refugees in floating prisons or cruel new laws. Say it loud and clear: NOT IN OUR NAME
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It's simple really
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Hey @PritiPatel - you’re on the wrong side of history. This #WorldRefugeeDay we put up a 🔵 plaque to show how you’ll be remembered. 📍Witham Town Hall - Priti Patel’s constituency #RefugeesWelcome
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A reminder.
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If @BorisJohnson is serious about standing with Ukraine, he must scrap his #AntiRefugeeBill . We sent this message loud and clear on Tower Bridge in London
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Hey Suella, you’re on the wrong side of history - so we put up a 🔵 plaque to show how your hostility will be remembered. 📍Suella Braverman’s constituency office, Fareham
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This Holocaust survivor has a message for Boris Johnson about Ukraine & refugees.
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BREAKING: the police tried to stop our banner drop. This World Refugee Day, we couldn’t let them silence us: REFUGEES WELCOME, ALWAYS 📍Parliament, London
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Joan fled the Nazis. Yesterday she confronted Suella Braverman about her anti-refugee rhetoric …
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🚨BREAKING: Government's cruel Rwanda scheme DEFEATED in Supreme Court! This is a huge victory for everyone who stands for a fairer, kinder, more humane asylum system. To everyone who stood up against this cruel policy: THANK YOU
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Every human crossing the Channel & seeking safety is someone just like you. But this government is trying to make us forget that - They're trying to criminalise torture survivors escaping persecution. No matter what we look or where we're from, we all deserve to live in peace.
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Hey Rishi, isn’t it time for some Love, Actually? 💙 This #HumanRightsDay here’s a reminder that we’ll NEVER stop fighting for a more compassionate UK. 📍Downing Street, London.
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This weekend a man threw a petrol bomb at a centre housing 700 people who'd fled for the UK looking for safety. We have a message for certain newspapers, politicians and public figures: scapegoating costs lives.
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This you?
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Conservative MP Sir Edward Leigh calls on the country to "show some compassion” to the Prime Minister.
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"But for the courage of the policeman who tipped off my mother, and her daring trek over the mountains into Spain with me as a baby on her back, I would not be here today. I commend Gary Lineker for speaking up" - Joan, a Holocaust survivor
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When a government uses hostile words, when they create a hostile environment, they spur violent actions. Make no mistake: This governments cruelty towards refugees isn’t accidental, it’s the whole point
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Every human seeking safety is someone just like you. A mother, father, sister, brother. But today, @pritipatel is announcing cruel plans designed to make us forget that. THREAD
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BREAKING: Holocaust survivors send powerful message to Suella Braverman: "the words we use have consequences"
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Join Joan and more than 17,000 people standing against hate and supporting refugees 👇
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🚨 BREAKING: the Rwanda plan has been ruled UNLAWFUL This is a victory for reason & compassion & it affirms what the caring people of this country already knew: the UK Government’s cash for humans deal is not only deeply immoral, it flies in the face of the laws of this country
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STOP SCAPEGOATING REFUGEES STOP SCAPEGOATING REFUGEES STOP SCAPEGOATING REFUGEES
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I condemn the appalling disorder in Knowsley last night. The alleged behaviour of some asylum seekers is never an excuse for violence and intimidation. Thank you to @merseypolice officers for keeping everyone safe.
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No, there really isn’t. Refugees are human beings. Instead of competing to show who’s cruellest, we need politicians to step up for the kindness and compassion we all deserve
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BREAKING: the Courts have just ruled to allow the Rwanda plan to go ahead - for now. The only way to defeat this cruel cash for humans scheme is through people power and we’ve already shown what we can do. Ready to step it up a gear?!
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If you find a way to get out, you take it, because whatever the route - it's safer than staying put. But this government’s anti-refugee Nationality and Borders bill will make it harder for people under threat in Ukraine and all over the world, to claim asylum in the UK. 2/
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If one flight can be stopped, they all can.
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This government is becoming increasingly desperate
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🚨BREAKING🚨 No refugee flights to Rwanda until the Conservatives have elected a new leader in September. via @thetimes
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Refugees welcome. Refugees welcome. Refugees welcome. #Afghanistan
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BREAKING: more refugees have now received letters saying they will be forcibly flown to Rwanda. We still don't know when the flights will be, but one things sure - we have to get to work. All of us. The flights were stopped before. They can be again.
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Hey @privilege757 , Nadine has a message for you. Sound on. #StopTheFlights
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We’ve come together to call on airlines @iberojetair_es @privilege757 @TitanAirways to rule themselves out of this govt's cruel plan to send refugees to Rwanda. Signed by artists, actors, writers, musicians and broadcasters inc @GaryLineker @rizwanahmed @akalamusic
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Ranked: the countries that host the most refugees. A thread. 🧵 (Clue: the UK is nowhere to be seen.) ⬇️
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🚨BREAKING: The House of Commons has just voted clause 11 of the Nationality and Borders Bill, one of the cruellest parts of this #AntiRefugeeBill , through to the final stages, by 318-220. The real fight starts now. Here's what happens next. THREAD 🧵 1/4
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Trying to fly refugees to Rwanda. Bacteria infested barges. Hateful and divisive language. This is how your legacy will be remembered Suella Braverman.
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Breaking: our new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak just appointed Suella Braverman BACK to the role of Home Secretary. There is now no doubt of his view on the cruel cash for humans Rwanda plan. But if we stopped one flight, we can stop them ALL.
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We won’t let them silence us. Hateful, dehumanising language should ALWAYS be challenged #IStandWithJoan
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On Friday I confronted Suella Braverman's use of hateful language. She refused to apologise. We must always challenge the language of hate. The Home Office demanded the video be taken town. They seem not to realise we are still a democracy.
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BREAKING: The UK halted UNRWA funding based on information reportedly obtained through torture. This would be a betrayal of the UK’s torture prevention duties We wrote to the Prime Minister demanding URGENT action including review of the decision to suspend funding for UNRWA👇
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Every single human being waiting to be sent to Rwanda is a human being with hopes and dreams just like you. We can't let @BorisJohnson and @pritipatel get away with this. #StopTheFlights
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Guantanamo Bay opened on this day in 2002. Here is why torture doesn't work, in 60 seconds - by someone who saw the US government's use of 'enhanced interrogation' with his own eyes. @glynco
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Nothing to see here just Home Office staff calmly responding to the refugee ban bill in an internal Q&A.
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Hey @RishiSunak , we’re here to drive the message home 🚍 #StoptheFlights
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Aylan Kurdi died 5 years ago this week. He was your child, but for luck. Our message on the white cliffs of Dover:
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On a record day for small boat crossings, here’s the truth about the ECHR. The European Convention on Human Rights was created to protect us all after the holocaust. Refugees need safe routes, not scapegoating. Share if you stand with people simply fleeing for safety!
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We’re outside the Home Office to stand against this government’s cruel plan to send people fleeing torture & war to Rwanda #StopTheFlights
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Enough of this hypocrisy.
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"How did this relative harmony turn to hatred in such a short period of time? Through the use of language. The language of hate and division." Holocaust survivor @T21Joan demands we do not forget the lessons of the past. #IStandWithJoan
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Hey @TitanAirways , we fixed your ad for you.
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It should NEVER be this hard to get from A to B. With dangerous journeys, maze-like bureaucracy and endless delays, we gave Conservative Party attendees just a taste of what torture survivors and refugees face trying to reach safety. 📍Conservative Party Conference, Manchester
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If passed into law, it will punish people fleeing war and torture, simply for the route they took to safety. ⠀ But it's still within the UK’s power to be there for people like Ukrainians seeking safety right now. There's still time for this govt to do the right thing. 3/
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BREAKING: ANOTHER U-TURN! Wow. Thanks to public pressure, the government have just announced they're also excluding war crimes from the #OverseasOperationsBill . Together, we've guaranteed the removal of: ✅Torture ✅Genocide ✅Crimes against humanity ✅ War crimes 1.
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We heard @TitanAirways , @privilege757 , @iberojetair_es and @AirTanker might be the airlines sending refugees to Rwanda. So we just called them up. Watch their response.
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A special guest at our “Faces and Spaces” exhibition! Great to have @jeremycorbyn come & see the photos taken by young torture survivors with the @Accumulate_Ldn project! Thanks too to @STARnational for coming to show support for #refugees 💪✊ #refugeeweek2019 ! #refugeeweek
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This is the feelgood news story we all needed to read this Sunday! At Penn Museum in the US, refugees are being hired as tour guides to exhibits from their home countries.
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🚨BREAKING: The House of Lords has just defeated this govt AGAIN, voting 227 to 219 against Clause 11 of the #AntiRefugeeBill . The bill now goes back to the House of Commons. Whatever happens - we know most people are united against the hostility that this bill represents.
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We see you SB
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Refugees who survived torture didn't have a choice when fleeing to the UK for safety. But we can choose to welcome them with open arms, and treat them with the kindness and compassion they deserve
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Every single person in there has travelled thousands of kilometres and risked their lives to seek safety and peace. Please sign Freedom from Torture's petition so that the government cannot ignore us any longer. 7/
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Dear friends, This is my message of hope. My name is Dr Waheed, and I came from Afghanistan as a young boy to seek safety, with nothing and no one by my side. Now, I'm an A&E doctor serving the British people on the front lines of the pandemic. 1/
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A REMINDER
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Joan warned them
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BREAKING: a Holocaust survivor just confronted Suella Braverman to say: your hateful language has consequences
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