
On Friday 13 March at 8pm, CAGE supporters organised a Twitter storm in order to show solidarity with our organisation with the hashtag #IAmCAGE. Over the past month we have come under attack, yet again, from Parliamentarians to the press for merely attempting to call for accountability of the security services who are currently acting extra-judicially.
From 8pm onward the hashtag managed to trend in 9 cities across the UK including Birmingham, Blackpool, Cardiff, Hull, Liverpool, London, Stoke on Trent, Newcastle and Swansea; it trended 5th in the UK too, at one stage it was trending number 1 in Birmingham, more stats about the trend can be viewed here. People were tweeting and retweeting from all walks of life, from those directly impacted by the War on Terror to those able to understand how legislation has been unjustly and disproportionately applied.
We would like to thank everyone who contributed to this and showed their support. In these testing times, when individual members of CAGE and CAGE as an organisation are being attacked, we are able to draw strength from our supporters and those who stand for justice with us.
Below are just a selection of the tweets:
#IAmCAGE Like @UK_CAGE we had our bank accounts frozen and our directors villified for speaking uncomfortable truths http://t.co/im6LbgqTzb
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 13, 2015
Members of @UK_Cage‘s board helped me with lawyers when I was being wrongly investigated. It was for common humanity. #IAmCage
— Exceedingly Unseelie (@der_bluthund) March 13, 2015
140 characters cannot so justice to the immense and praiseworthy work @UK_CAGE have done. #IAmCage
— Dilly Hussain (@DillyHussain88) March 13, 2015
Supporters of advocacy group @UK_CAGE have organised a Twitter storm in its defence, #IAmCage, following recent press coverage.
— DarshnaSoni (@darshnasoni) March 13, 2015
Even if they shut @UK_CAGE down, I know that the spirit of standing up for justice will remain alive within our communities #IAmCAGE
— Asim Qureshi (@AsimCP) March 13, 2015
CAGE was one of the only UK orgs fighting to save Alan Henning despite the govts failings. Don’t let them re-write history! #IAmCAGE
— N (@NilesAk) March 13, 2015
Alhamdulillah, It’s great to see the Muslim Community rallying around & supporting @UK_CAGE . #IAmCagepic.twitter.com/64XrNI7zyj
— Jammy Dodger (@mrjammyjamjar) March 13, 2015
.@UK_CAGE were castigated 12 years ago for claiming the US was torturing detainees in Guantanamo. The truth became manifest #iamcage
— Fahad Ansari (@fahadansari) March 13, 2015
I am justice. I am truth. I am the voice for those silenced by oppression. #IAmCage
— Raz (@raztweets) March 13, 2015
Speaking Truth to Power. Standing up for Civil Liberties. #IAmCage@UK_CAGEpic.twitter.com/3cmxhb5ce2
— Jammy Dodger (@mrjammyjamjar) March 13, 2015
As the abuse continues with hypocrisy and lies, right now to ask for justice must mean to show support for @UK_CAGE#IAmCage
— Yasmin Khatun (@Yasm1nK) March 14, 2015
#IAmCage@UK_CAGEpic.twitter.com/0X8nbkU8zl
— Rizwan Ahmed (@rizzoo) March 14, 2015
NOAM CHOMSKY says CAGE’s Asim Qureshi is right on his remarks about #JihadiJohn and the Secret Services: http://t.co/tPsU2aDovD #IAmCage
— راشيدأحمد (@LondonRash) March 13, 2015
Appreciate Cage for their excellent work educating and supporting families whilst others turned away #IAmCage
— Carol Anne Grayson (@Quickieleaks) March 13, 2015
Lord Prescott: ‘British Foreign Policy radicalised Muslims’. What @UK_CAGE have been saying all along. #IamCAGE http://t.co/IuaB6Ym3Ck
— আবুমারিয়া (@Faysal_FreeGaza) March 13, 2015
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