Poster / Publication 3,159 TWEETS
Ahmed Mansoor Al Shehhi (أحمد منصور الشحي) is a poet. A family man. A social media activist. And since May 2018, a prisoner of conscience in the United Arab Emirates.
Mansoor is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence for his online activities – specifically, ‘promoting false and shaded information’ and ‘serving agendas aimed at spreading hatred and sectarianism’. To put these charges in context, we are republishing the 3,159 most recent posts from his Twitter feed, @Ahmed_Mansoor, in parallel with a machine translation into English. @Ahmed_Mansoor has 16.8K followers, and has been silent since his arrest.
This is followed by a selection of Mansoor’s poetry in Arabic from his collection Beyond the Failure, together with their English translations. The publication concludes with a transcript of an interview with Mansoor (2016), and first published in the journal Surveillance & Society. Images are photographic documentation from the international #FreeAhmed calls.
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