Surprising no one, Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s military leader, announced he will run for presidential election. Sisi lead the military overthrow of Egypt’s first freely elected government, headed by the Muslim Brotherhood party, last summer.
A Turkish court has ordered a controversial ban on twitter to be lifted. The ban was imposed after audio recording implicating people close to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in corruption spread across the social network.
In Iraq, a bill that blatantly discriminates against women and girls has reached Parliament. Many Iraqis have protested the bill, and if it passes, it would allow girls aged 9 to marry, limit women’s ability to get divorced, and much more.
The Kenyan authorities are planning to forcibly move 50,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers from cities – where they live and work – to overcrowded and remote refugee camps. The move comes shortly after a number of Kenyans were killed in a church, and it unfairly stigmatizes the refugees, many of whom are Somali, as potential terrorists.
A Russian court confirmed that political protester Mikhail Kosenko should be forcibly imprisoned in a psychiatric institution and given compulsory treatments, sentenced to forced psychiatric treatment.
Tomorrow, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva will vote on a resolution about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has not ensured justice for the victims of abuses during its recent civil war, and has instead launched an aggressive campaign against those Sri Lankans who criticize the government.
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