Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 26 April 2016

After a brief hiatus, the deportation of refugees from Greece resumed today as part of a controversial deal that sends some asylum seekers entering the European Union back to Turkey, some without their possessions and with no authorities telling them where they are headed. While many EU and international leaders publicly regard Turkey as a safe place for refugees, the reality is its a dangerous place. Deportation is not the only issue for the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Greece, however. Many are effectively trapped in crowded camps, unable to leave country and facing uncertain futures. Protests in one of Greece's camps today highlights the frustration. A tragic boat accident in Burma resulted in the deaths of at least 20 Rohingya Muslims. But without the government's ongoing dangerous and discriminatory policies targeting the group, the accident may not have occurred. From earlier today: A top gay rights activist and editor of Bangladesh's only LGBT magazine has been hacked to death. Xulhaz Mannan and his colleague Tanay Mojumdar were both murdered yesterday. Their killings come amid a spate of attacks against activists, athiests and independent thinkers in the country. The Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea has ruled that Australia's detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal. The court's ruling - confirming what human rights groups have long decried - also ordered that the 850 people detained there in miserable conditions should now be freed. Egyptian security forces detained at least 33 journalists attempting to cover street protests in Cairo yesterday. By the end of the day two of them had yet to be released.