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Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 14 January 2015

Burma, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, #CharlieHebdo, Kuwait, Pakistan, UK, Egypt, South Sudan

An odious and discriminatory law in Burma which deprives the Rohingya minority of citizenship is a long-standing human rights "abomination" that should end now, Human Rights Watch has said. The group has long documented serious abuses of Rohingya in Burma, including ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Tens of thousands of Rohingya have been forced to flee the country as a result.
The brutal public flogging of a blogger in Saudi Arabia has caused outrage across the world. But the US and its allies have been "utterly silent" in the face of Saudi Arabia's "grotesque abuses against its own citizens" says Sarah Leah Whitson, and it's time for that to change.
France is still in shock following the devastating #CharlieHebdo killings. As the country buries its dead and seeks to move on, what happens next?
Somalia remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists. A new timeline by the BBC shows that Somali reporters face a relentless barrage of threats including bombings, arrest and assassinations, just for doing their jobs.
Meanwhile Kuwait is busy hassling human rights activists, with a "textbook violation of free speech" underway.
What's the best way of tackling the "murderous theatre of terrorism"? Certainly not by putting on your own show of barbarity like Pakistan just did, by executing seven terrorism suspects on the eve of a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry.
A UK minister has led the biggest British trade delegation to Egypt in a decade. Officials apparently thought this a good idea despite the "most dramatic reversal of human rights" in Egypt's modern history.

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