#solway — Public Fediverse posts

Today, Human Rights Defender and Indigenous Maya Q'eqchi community journalist Carlos Ernesto Choc, subject to regular judicial harassment, is due in court in #Guatemala.

#humanrights #Solway #FrontlineDefenders #ForbiddenStories

Find out more about his case: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/new-acts-criminalisation-against-journalist-carlos-ernesto-choc-chub

Speaking of the #Solway, I made a series of films for work about #Smugglers and their place in #Galloway #history .
If you like a bit of swashbuckling then this might entertain.
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The Solway Smugglers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZywkQyl80s52NKymwkrwmEn4AcvzGrjH

Here's a #Sunday #Story from the #Sea...

A young man from Ramsey, in the north of the Island, once took it upon himself to smuggle some bags of salt to help pay for his impending marriage.
On the eve of the wedding, in defiance of the advice of relatives, he sailed with his soon to be Brother-in-law to Colvend. As they travelled up the Solway, a cutter named Prince Edward Augustus ordered them to ‘lay-to’ with a megaphone.
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https://youtu.be/0bl5xybaqO0
#history #galloway #smuggler #solway

The River Nith where it meets the Solway.
Frost and Ice accumulations are quite amazing after more than a week of freezing temps, there hasn’t been any snow yet, just looks like it.
#Winter #Scotland #Solway #RiverNith #Glencaple #DumfriesandGalloway