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Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 9 April 2015

US surveillance, Walter Scott, Killer Robots, India, Australia, Pakistan, sexism

Constantino Morales told US officials that he could be killed if deported back to Mexico. Six months after the US deported him, he was found murdered. It is time that US immigration policies consider the risks of deporting undocumented immigrants to countries where they risk harm.
“If I am sent back, I will face more violence and I could lose my life,” Morales said.
Human Rights Watch joined a coalition calling for the US Congress to overhaul the surveillance provisions of the Patriot Act that allow the collection of private data.
In August 2013, thirty-seven men died in policy custody in Egypt following the clearing of Rabaa Square. They were kept in a van in the desert awaiting transfer to jail and left to suffocate just outside the prison walls. Who is responsible for these deaths?
US President Barack Obama is calling for an end to so-called conversion therapy for LGBT teens, which are aimed at "repairing" them. These methods are humiliating and discriminatory, and can lead to serious psychological trauma, including suicide.
From earlier today: Human Rights Watch is suing the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for illegally collecting records of the organisation's telephone calls to foreign countries. The surveillance programme jeopardized Human Rights Watch's confidential contacts by mass collecting the group's phone data.
Outrage continues in the US over the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer. Video footage shows Walter Scott being shot multiple times in the back as he ran away following a scuffle with the officer, who's now been charged with murder.

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