Human Rights Watch

As G20 member countries meet in Riyadh this month, Human Rights Watch calls on government leaders to hold the kingdom accountable for human rights abuses, and release unlawfully detained prisoners of conscience like Loujain al-Hathloul and Raif Badawi.

The bill would expand reporting requirements for groups tagged as “foreign agents” and would allow the Justice Ministry to ban any planned or ongoing activity by those groups. Failure to comply would serve as grounds to close down the organisation.

The report calls for new elections in line with international standards, the release of all prisoners held for political reasons and the establishment of an independent, international investigation into all allegations of torture and ill-treatment.

Indian authorities carried out several raids on the offices of nongovernmental organizations, the homes of several activists, and a newspaper office in Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, and Bangalore. Human Rights Watch said the raids are part of a crackdown by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on civil society groups.

Faced with the challenges of COVID-19 and Brexit, the UK government has responded by trying to override democratic checks on executive power.

In response to the omnibus bill, street protests immediately broke out in more than three dozen cities, with police arresting hundreds of protesters and physically assaulting or destroying the equipment of at least 28 journalists.

Rights groups send letter to President Mohamed, lauding positive clauses, but also express their concerns over restrictive clauses in Somalia’s new media law.

The beatings occurred while authorities are preparing to relocate thousands of refugees to Bhasan Char Island.