ISIS massacres; Kenya killings; UK xenophobia: HRW Daily Brief

An attack on a shopping center in Baghdad, Iraq, has killed over 100 people. So-called "Islamic State" has claimed responsibility for the carnage. ISIS has also claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Kenyan authorities must urgently investigate the killing last week of three men, including a human rights lawyer, and ensure that those found responsible are held to account in fair trials, 34 Kenyan and international human rights organizations said today. Human rights activists will today hold demonstrations in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya to protest the heinous killings. There's been a five-fold rise in reports of xenophobic attacks in the wake of the Brexit referendum in the UK. Top politicians competing for the Conservative Party leadership have worryingly been suggesting that other EU nationals residing in the UK could be used as pawns in the future negotiations about Britain's exit for the European Union. The new president of the Philippines has proposed an appalling new way to address drug use... Elie Wiesel, who "more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world’s conscience," has died at aged 87.