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Life is so awful in ISIS-controlled parts of Afghanistan that residents - particularly women - feel life under Taliban rule was relatively permissive by comparison.
Relatives, including children, of peaceful Tajik opposition activists who are taking part in a human rights conference have been viciously attacked in cities across Tajikistan.
Burundi might be out of the headlines, but killings, disappearances, and torture continue. As the Human Rights Council meets in Geneva this week, it is critical that they adopt a resolution addressing Burundi's deepening human rights crisis.
From earlier today: Staff at Egypt's secretive high-security Scorpion Prison badly beat inmates, isolate them in cramped “discipline” cells, cut off access to families and lawyers and interfere with medical treatment, a new Human Rights Watch report has found today. Scorpion, which holds many political opponents including senior Muslim Brotherhood members, appears to be little more than "a place to throw government critics and forget them”, HRW has warned.
Authorities in Thailand cancelled an Amnesty International report launch just one hour before it was due to begin, claiming two of the panellists did not have work permits. Amnesty's new report documents how the country's military authorities have allowed a "culture of torture and other ill-treatment to flourish across the country".
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