Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 13 May 2015

Today marks exactly one year since the biggest mining disaster in Turkey's history, but the path to justice for the victims and their families is still being blocked. Sudan, beset by multiple rights abuses, is set to receive three visits from international human rights experts this month. But will government authorities allow them to actually carry out their mandates this time? Angola’s most prominent journalist and human rights defender, Rafael Marques de Morais, is preparing his defense against a politically motivated prosecution. Tomorrow, he will be in court defending himself against a litany of criminal defamation charges. From earlier today: Police in China continue to torture criminal suspects despite government measures brought in to stop the practice, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today. Research shows some detainees have been forced to spend days at a time shackled to "tiger chairs", hung by their wrists and treated abusively by "cell bosses" - fellow detainees who manage cells on behalf of the police. The European Commission is today publishing plans on how to tackle the EU migrant crisis. The plans are expected to include quotas on how many migrants EU countries should accept. But the UK has already dismissed the plan, and claims most desperate asylum seekers are instead 'economic migrants' who should be returned home. It is exactly ten years since the Andijan massacre in Uzbekistan, when hundreds of mostly peaceful protesters were gunned down during a government protest. Today marks a "decade of impunity" for the massacre, says Human Rights Watch, which has made a fresh call for accountability. Yesterday's brutal murder of the secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das in Bangladesh is part of an alarming trend of violent intolerance toward freedom of religion and speech in the country.