In today's Brief: Reports emerge China may allow limited access to Facebook and Twitter in Shanghai; an independent journalist in Uzbekistan has been forcibly disappeared; another chance to move terror cases from Guantanamo to US federal court; the UN General Assembly's 61st session begins, packed with issues and controversies; Libya restricting free speech of parliamentarians; Cambodia's wrongly imprisoned; and the final inspection of the Winter Olympic venues in Sochi, but is Russia ready from a rights perspective?
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Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 24 September
UN General Assembly, Libya, Cambodia, Russia Olympics
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