Layla Maryam Razavi (@laylamrazavi) 's Twitter Profile
Layla Maryam Razavi

@laylamrazavi

Movement lawyer tweeting about immigrant rights, global migration & the Iranian diaspora. Frmrly @ACLU

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linkhttps://open.substack.com/pub/laylarazavi?r=iwdp5&utm_medium=ios calendar_today03-11-2015 22:47:12

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@longtimehistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ICE shuts down restaurant owned by U.S. citizen—for putting up "No ICE Welcome" sign. 50 armed agents block shop entrance with official vehicles. "This is intimidation—I'm scared for my life with all your guns out here," he says. "Why y'all doing this to me? I'm just a citizen

Amnesty Iran (@amnestyiran) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🧵The Iranian security forces’ attack on a hospital in Ilam, where injured protesters are seeking medical care or shelter violates international law and exposes yet again how far the Iranian authorities are willing to go to crush dissent. 1/6

🧵The Iranian security forces’ attack on a hospital in Ilam, where injured protesters are seeking medical care or shelter violates international law and exposes yet again how far the Iranian authorities are willing to go to crush dissent. 1/6
Shayan Sardarizadeh (@shayan86) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BBC Verify and BBC Persian have verified over 100 videos in more than 50 towns and cities during 10 days of nationwide protests in Iran, showing the demonstrations have now spread to the majority of Iran's provinces. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Omid Djalili (@omid9) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As events unfold in Iran the courage of the people is staggering. It’s basically a civil war and the people are winning. Yet very little is covered in the mainstream press. And if anything is covered the chosen narrative is reflected from the position of the Islamic regime. If

Jesus Freakin Congress (@thejfreakinc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents are now hitting unaccompanied minors with their vehicles, detaining and disappearing them, even after being shown a U.S. passport. Yesterday, agents rear-ended a car being driven by a 16-year-old, with her 15-year-old brother in the passenger

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“The United States government under Trump has made a deliberate, calculated, and shameful decision to embolden and enable Nazi-glorifying elements within his party; to elevate and amplify Nazi messaging” My latest for the Guardian, and I bring receipts: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Amnesty International USA (@amnestyusa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Since January 8-9, 2026, when the Iranian authorities committed mass unlawful killings on an unprecedented scale to crush the popular uprising calling for an end to their repressive rule, they have waged a coordinated, militarized clampdown to prevent further dissent and hide

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Confirming everything we knew already; the Trump admin had a foreign student arrested by masked men on the streets and detained in a remote southern prison for co-writing an op-ed and NOTHING more.

Confirming everything we knew already; the Trump admin had a foreign student arrested by masked men on the streets and detained in a remote southern prison for co-writing an op-ed and NOTHING more.
UN Human Rights Council (@un_hrc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔴BREAKING! The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted draft resolution A/HRC/S-39/L.1 (as orally revised) entitled "The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of #Iran, especially in the context of the repression of nationwide protests starting on 28 December 2025." #SS39

🔴BREAKING!

The <a href="/UN/">United Nations</a> Human Rights Council adopted draft resolution A/HRC/S-39/L.1 (as orally revised) entitled "The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of #Iran, especially in the context of the repression of nationwide protests starting on 28 December 2025."

#SS39
Afshon Ostovar (@aostovar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“But the breaking point came when cemetery workers arrived in refrigerated trucks to dump still more corpses on the ground. The body bags landed with sickening thuds in front of onlookers who had come to bury their children, siblings, fathers, mothers” nytimes.com/2026/01/23/wor…

Throwback Iranian Football (@tarikh_football) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The father of Reza Asadi who was murdered by the regime “People! My Reza was sacrificed for the people and the nation! Reza was a flower sacrificed for the homeland!” Unprecedented scenes of Iranians dancing & chanting nationalist slogans at funerals of martyrs.

Rachel Barnhart (@rachbarnhart) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world." nytimes.com/2026/02/01/opi…

Layla Maryam Razavi (@laylamrazavi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Border Patrol agents are notoriously known for supporting whites supremacy and the great replacement theory. This surprises none of us who have been following how this agency operates.

Eoin Higgins (@eoinhiggins_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick." lataco.com/captive-lotion…

missmellie 🌊 (@immissmellie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out. No warrant. No crime. Just retaliation for observing.

Power to the People ☭🕊 (@proudsocialist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bad Bunny listing off all the countries in the Americas was powerful. If only the United States would stop invading them and start respecting the sovereignty of its neighbors.

The New Yorker (@newyorker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As the Iranian regime imposes a forced forgetting of the massacres in January, it has begun targeting not only wounded protesters but medical workers, who have borne witness to some of the worst atrocities. newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exclusive: The Nobel Committee say they have credible reports that Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi has been severely beaten in custody. The allegations are graphic and horrific. Nobel chair Jørgen Frydnes calls it “cruel and inhumane treatment, a blatant violation of