Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 21 April 2015

EU leaders have come up with proposals to address the migrant crisis following hundreds of deaths in the Med at the weekend, but they fall short of what's needed. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, has called the latest tragedy, "the result of a continuing failure of governance accompanied by a monumental failure of compassion." Wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, Sudan's president has canceled his travel plans... There is probably no other organization that has done more to help refugees and migrants in Russia than Civic Assistance Committee. So, it comes as little surprise that the organization has become the latest target in the Russian government’s unrelenting campaign against independent nongovernmental groups. A court in Cairo has sentenced Egypt's former president, Mohamed Morsi, to 20 years in prison on charges of inciting the killing of protesters outside the presidential palace in December 2012. Accountability remains elusive, however, for "Egypt's Tiananmen," the August 2013 Rabaa massacre, in which hundreds were killed at the hands of the country's security forces. On 24 April, the Chinese government’s willingness to examine domestic violence as a possible mitigating factor in sentencing will go on trial as a Sichuan court rules in the case of Li Yan, who was sentenced to death for murdering her abusive husband. The Saudi-led coalition bombed one of Oxfam's warehouses containing vital humanitarian aid in Yemen. And months after the revelations of the US Senate "torture report," there is still no move towards prosecution of the officials involved.