Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC

Thanks very much for sharing it, Teresa.

Dubai influencers: The entitlement, denial and moral vacuum in the so-called 'safest city' As the death toll climbs, some Western expats in Dubai fret about golf courses, bottled water and weight-loss injections, writes Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC.

🔊 My latest piece for @thejournal.ie:

‘Dubai influencers - The entitlement, denial and moral vacuum in the so-called 'safest city'’

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC writes about how some are responding to the unfolding crisis in the Middle East.

www.thejournal.ie/readme/influ...

#UAE #Dubai #Iran

Dubai influencers: The entitlement, denial and moral vacuum in the so-called 'safest city' As the death toll climbs, some Western expats in Dubai fret about golf courses, bottled water and weight-loss injections, writes Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC.

🔊 My latest piece for @thejournal.ie:

‘Dubai influencers - The entitlement, denial and moral vacuum in the so-called 'safest city'’

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC writes about how some are responding to the unfolding crisis in the Middle East.

www.thejournal.ie/readme/influ...

#UAE #Dubai #Iran

Further to the original letter sent 2 weeks ago to the PM, coordinated by the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, almost 40 more people have added their name; incl. Tony Gallagher, Editor @thetimes.com, John Battle KC (Hon.) Head of Legal and Compliance at ITN & human rights lawyer @caoilfhionn.bsky.social ⬇️

Jimmy Lai's son: "We expected a very heavy sentence but it makes it no less devastating" Sebastien Lai, son of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, discusses his father's 20 year sentencing in Hong Kong on Monday for "colluding with foreign forces" under the city's controversial national...

Sebastien Lai spoke to Morning Ireland @rteradio1.bsky.social this morning.

🎧 Listen back:

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

#FreeJimmyLai

This week our incredible clients Jenni & Trevor Hicks launched a new campaign for ‘Hicks’ Rule,’ to rewrite historic legal wrongs.

In 1992 the House of Lords (highest UK court at the time) ruled their two daughters died “swift & sudden deaths” at Hillsborough. They want to get the record corrected.

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison after landmark national security trial | CNN Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling...

Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years for publishing a newspaper. www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/c...

Pro democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been jailed for 20 years For the latest Head of Jimmy Lei’s legal team, Caoilfhionn Gallagher.

I spoke to Cian McCormack @news.rte.ie about Jimmy Lai’s disgraceful 20 year sentence.

I thanked An Taoiseach for raising the case in China last month, & called on Ireland to now go further & call for Jimmy Lai’s immediate release.

#FreeJimmyLai
#JournalismIsNotACrime

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Jimmy Lai:

Response from his children, Sebastien & Claire, & from the international legal team to this predictable but nonetheless disgraceful sentence.

Press queries: see contact details here & please direct queries through them. Thank you.

Hello @news.rte.ie

It would be great if you could include our response?

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Jimmy Lai: conviction of Hong Kong pro-democracy figure decried as attack on press freedom Rights groups dismiss ‘sham conviction’ of media tycoon on national security offences in city’s most closely watched rulings in decades

A reminder, following the conviction of Jimmy Lai, that two senior British lawyers—a former Law Lord and a former Supreme Court President—continue to lend respectability to the Hong Kong legal system by sitting as non-permanent judges on its highest court.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Violent threats, ‘soft sexism’ at the Bar — and defending Jimmy Lai A career representing journalists who are facing persecution has put a target on Caoilfhionn Gallagher’s back. It makes life complicated

"In the vast majority of cases in which a journalist is killed, whether in peacetime, or in a democracy, or in a dictatorship, in the middle of conflict, wherever in the world — in nine out of ten cases they’re killed with total impunity.” @caoilfhionn.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

Jennifer Robinson and Associate Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC @caoilfhionn.bsky.social, act for the BBC World Service in this urgent appeal and in all UN engagement on the harassment and targeting of BBC News Persian staff and their families in Iran.

BBC World Service urges the UN to condemn Iran’s allegations of ‘media terrorism’ and ‘media warfare’ The BBC World Service has today submitted a formal response to UN experts expressing deep concern over Iran’s new and extreme language used in relation to BBC News Persian.

BBC World Service urges the UN to condemn Iran’s allegations of ‘media terrorism’ and ‘media warfare’

1,800 days behind bars: democracies cannot let Jimmy Lai die in prison Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, has been held for 1,800 days in solitary confinement in Hong Kong — and his health has dangerously deteriorated. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) once...

#HongKong: Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, has been held for 1,800 days in solitary confinement — and his health has seriously deteriorated. RSF once again urges democracies to mobilise to secure his release, before the publisher - a British citizen - dies in jail.

#Georgia: RSF condemns the authorities' smear campaign against the BBC after an investigation into the alleged use of a World War One-era chemical weapon against protesters. The pressure on sources and legal threats are unacceptable tactics from a government that claims to respect the rule of law.

This is good to hear: @theglobeandmail.com reports that Jimmy Lai's plight raised by @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social at the G7 Foreign Ministers' Summit, and all agreed to work together to secure his release.

An important show of solidarity by the G7 at a critical time in Mr Lai's case.

#FreeJimmyLai

Amal, George Clooney raise press freedom in meeting with Philippines’ Marcos 'I am hopeful that cases against journalists in the Philippines will be resolved in line with the right to free speech enshrined in the constitution and treaties that it has ratified,' says Amal Cloon...

Today, my co-counsel in @mariaressa.bsky.social's case, Amal Clooney, met with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Amal & George Clooney are in the Philippines for @rappler.bsky.social's Social Good Summit this weekend.

Background:

www.rappler.com/philippines/...

The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai How a globe-trotting attorney is trying to win the release of the famed Hong Kong publisher.

Writing in @thenation.com December issue, @liamjscott.bsky.social writes about our work to #FreeJimmyLai.

A renowned publisher, pro-democracy advocate, a husband, a father, a grandfather. As he turns 78, the race is on to free him and save his life.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, human rights lawyer and Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, highlighting the need for greater investment in #childprotection services. Highlighting the understaffing of child protection services in Ireland with many more social workers required.

🟥 Georgia’s unlawfully imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli has been named laureate of the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, shared with Andrzej Poczobut of #Belarus.

🔴“Imprisoned Journalists Fighting for Your Freedom and Ours"
#RepressionInGeorgia

Today the European Parliament announced the winners of the Sakharov Prize: two brave, brilliant journalists in jail for their work- my client, Mzia Amaglobeli (Georgia) & Andrzej Poczobut (Belarus).

Congratulations to Mzia & Andrzej.

Now to #FreeMzia #FreeAndrzej

🇬🇪 🇧🇾 @netgazeti.org

My response:

Today we are in the European Parliament to discuss the urgent case of my client, #MziaAmaglobeli, & the crackdown on media & the pro-democracy movement in #Georgia.

Thank you to all the MEPs who are supporting Mzia, her colleagues, the Georgian people, & who are calling for action now to #FreeMzia.

The political prisoners club, and remembering Conor Gearty My work takes me across the world, and I am always amazed at how those who have suffered such trauma spend time helping others

Caollfhionn Gallagher KC remembers the superlative debating skill of the late Conor Gearty.

He urged us to put ourselves in our opponents shoes and argue “‘That America needs Trump’; ‘Brexit is the right approach for Britain...’"

The political prisoners club, and remembering Conor Gearty My work takes me across the world, and I am always amazed at how those who have suffered such trauma spend time helping others

Caollfhionn Gallagher KC reflects on the legacy of her friend Conor Gearty, who recently passed away...

He “won every debating competition in sight... Debate breaks down certainty, forcing you to enter the mind of the holder of an opposing point of view.”

Prospect’s latest issue hits newsstands today! Here’s a preview of what you’ll find inside... 🧵

Our cover story is by Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov, who argues that Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal—but Israelis refuse to see it:
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

Thanks, Ken.

The political prisoners club, and remembering Conor Gearty My work takes me across the world, and I am always amazed at how those who have suffered such trauma spend time helping others

I've written for the latest @prospectmagazine.co.uk about some of the most inspiring people I know.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/hu...

USA, 2025.