Reporter arrested in South Sudan; journalist killed in Ukraine: HRW Daily Brief

A reporter is behind bars in South Sudan; a car bomb kills a Kremlin critic in Ukraine; forced disappearances in Kenya; Greece detains some migrant children in police cells; the precarious lives of Rio's cops; post-coup purge widens in Turkey; & India gang-rape horror...

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As heavy fighting continues in South Sudan, a prominent journalist has been arrested after speaking out against the government. , Alfred Taban faced government harassment from South Sudanese authorities while reporting during southern Sudan's civil war. South Sudan should not repeat the same persecution for criticism, and release him immediately.
Belarusian journalist and Kremlin-critic Pavel Sheremet has been killed in an apparent car bomb in Ukraine. Although the full facts surrounding the explosion including those potentially responsible and motives, are unknown, past unresolved attacks on journalists have had a chilling effect on media freedom in Ukraine.
From earlier today: At least 34 people have been forcibly disappeared in Kenya during "abusive counter-terror operations" in Nairobi and elsewhere in the country, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today.
Greek authorities are holding migrant children traveling alone in "small, crowded, and unsanitary" police cells, Human Rights Watch said today, some for weeks or even months at a time.
There's no question that being a police officer in Rio de Janeiro can be difficult and dangerous. Dozens are killed each year, many at the hands of criminal gangs, but there's another deadly for them threat too: their fellow police officers.

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