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      Greta Thunberg speaks at an event

      Right-Wing Influencer Arrested on Human Trafficking Charges After Online Spat With Greta Thunberg

      "This is what happens when you don't recycle your pizza boxes," Thunberg quipped.

      Julia Conley
      Dec 30, 2022

      Supporters of climate leader Greta Thunberg cheered late Thursday into Friday after Andrew Tate, the latest right-wing influencer to attack Thunberg online, was arrested in Romania after bragging to the activist about owning dozens of emissions-heavy vehicles.

      The arrest—on human trafficking, rape, and organized crime charges—came shortly after Tate addressed Thunberg in a video uploaded to Twitter in which he was holding a pizza box from a Romanian pizza chain, although authorities in Romania "said that it was not the case that Tate's arrest had been made as a result of the pizza boxes," according toThe Guardian.

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      Families and Indigenous Youth Vow to 'Not Give Up' After Top EU Court Dismisses 'People's Climate Case'

      Families and Indigenous Youth Vow to 'Not Give Up' After Top EU Court Dismisses 'People's Climate Case'

      "We will keep fighting for justice and for the protection of fundamental rights that are threatened by the unequal and diverse impacts of climate change."

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 25, 2021

      Plaintiffs in the "People's Climate Case" promised to keep fighting for justice after the European Union's top court on Thursday decided to "close its doors to people hit by climate impacts" by upholding a lower court's dismissal of the case on procedural grounds.

      "We will continue seeking protection of our rights and demand climate protection until E.U. decision-makers listen to their citizens and take climate change as a priority for Europe."
      --Alfredo Sendim, Portuguese farmer

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      Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Targeting Lawyers Supporting ICC Afghan War Crimes Probe

      Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Targeting Lawyers Supporting ICC Afghan War Crimes Probe

      "National security concerns must not become a talisman used to ward off inconvenient claims, a 'label' used to 'cover a multitude of sins.'"

      Brett Wilkins
      Jan 04, 2021

      A federal judge in New York on Monday issued an injunction against President Donald Trump's June executive order sanctioning human rights lawyers cooperating with an International Criminal Court investigtion of alleged U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan.

      U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan issued a preliminary injunction (pdf) barring the Trump administration from targeting four law professors with criminal or civil penalties for supporting the work of the ICC in its investigation of alleged extrajudicial killing, torture, rape, and other potential war crimes committed by military and CIA personnel and allied forces during the ongoing 19-year war in Afghanistan--the longest campaign of the so-called War on Terror.

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