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  • Welcome to Russia’s Syria doublespeak
    Jun 19, 2013
    While world leaders managed to produce a joint communique on Syria at the end of the G8 summit, the closing media remarks made it clear that Vladimir Putin hasn’t actually moved an inch on the issue. The Russian president once again lashed out at the European Union and the United States for considering arms shipments to the Syrian opposition, suggesting it will further destabilize Syria. At the same time, he made it clear that Russia will continue supplying a range of weapons to the Syrian government, arguing that this will help stabilize the region while preventing a foreign intervention.
  • Yemen: UPR Submission June 2013
    Jun 19, 2013
    Popular discontent, already rising due to widespread unemployment and government corruption, soared in late 2010 after then President Ali Abdullah Saleh proposed to amend electoral laws and the constitution so that he could again seek re-election when his seventh presidential term expired in 2013. In January 2011, inspired by mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt, thousands of Yemenis took to the streets calling for an end to Saleh’s 33-year rule.
  • Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 18 June
    Jun 18, 2013
  • For Libya to end the violence, it needs to shut down the militias
    Jun 18, 2013
    From tragedy can come positive change. The Libyan government has that chance, after violent clashes last week between a militia and residents of Benghazi left 32 people dead.
  • Saudi Arabia: Activists Convicted for Answering Call for Help
    Jun 17, 2013

    A Saudi court convicted two Saudi women’s rights activists on June 15, 2013, for inciting a woman against her husband. Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Oyouni were each sentenced to 10 months in prison and two-year travel bans.

  • Kuwait: Immediately Halt Executions
    Jun 17, 2013
    Local media in Kuwait are reporting that at least two prisoners, both Egyptian, will be executed on live television at 7:30 a.m. on June 18, 2013. It will be Kuwait’s second round of executions since it ended its de facto moratorium on use of the death penalty in April.
  • Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 17 June
    Jun 17, 2013
  • Tunisia: 2 Years in Prison for a Song
    Jun 15, 2013
    The two-year prison sentence for a Tunisian rapper on June 13, 2013, for “insulting the police” in a song violates freedom of speech. The criminal court sentence is another manifestation of the continuing intolerance for those who criticize government institutions in Tunisia.
  • Tunisia: Sweeping Political Exclusion Law
    Jun 15, 2013
    Tunisia’s legislature should amend the latest draft of a law intended to bar government officials under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from holding public office for seven years.
  • Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 14 June
    Jun 14, 2013
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