Ensaf and her 3 children, Dodi, Meryam & Najwa were awarded Canadian citizenship on July 1! 👏

And today, we want to ask you a favor, for Ensaf, and for her children. Three years after our first encounter with Ensaf, the fight is still going on, and Raif is still unjustly imprisoned. It has been 6 years now. One day would have been too much, and we are at a loss for words to describe such abomination. Ensaf, Dodi, Meryam & Najwa are still fighting every day to get Raif out and with them in Canada.

Let them know that they are not alone, that you support them, that you stand with them in such a dark time.

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A text by Alex in answer to the Manchester events:

Every morning following such a horrifying display of disasters, might they be perpetuated in familiar places or far away, reminds us how fragile gathering peace and communal empathy look like before the implacable nature of hatred… How the price for forgiveness and love seem to be more and more difficult to pay for people of good will… as we are to be facing the most horrible fears and dreads there is, which is to become the same monsters we are now so deeply despising… At least that’s always my personal decision to make.

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To deny anyone’s rights is to deprave everyone from their rights. We might not understand, we might not be comfortable, we might not even agree, but one thing is for sure; the moment we deny equality based on our beliefs or on other people’s differences, we become accomplice of the hatred that each and everyone of us had to face, are facing or will face one day for simply being who we are. By acknowledging who we are, whatever it might be or not, it is to assume what others might be or not as well. Want it or not, we’re all strange, weird or wrong for at least another one. And this is what makes the world a far more captivating place to evolve in than any homogenized dictature created by our fears and what we rebuke. At least, true or not, that’s where I stand… Human rights for all… no exception!!!

– Alex

We’re all guilty of something in life. And the band members are no exception. But what if we could all be free? No judgement, but a pure and simple freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of being. This is what should prevail in our everyday life. In honor of those who do not have this freedom, we stand united.

Human Rights for all, no exception. This is a motto that the members of Your Favorite Enemies go by every day, and one for which they’ve fought for years.

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