US elections; #NotAfraid; Assad & Russia attacking kids in Syria: HRW Daily Brief

US elections; #NotAfraid; Assad & Russia attacking kids in Syria.

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The Ethiopian government has arrested relatives of Ethiopians who attended a protest in Melbourne to demonstrate against an Ethiopian delegation's visit to Australia in June, 2016. Four months later, many of them are still in detention. Ethiopia's severe crackdown is bad enough without it extending over borders...
Unlike some tourists, Wendy Murphy did her homework before jumping on the plane to Rwanda. She had read up not only about the devastating genocide of 1994, but also about the country’s rapid development since then. But while both are important to understanding today's Rwanda, Ms. Murphy also read about President Kagame’s human rights record...
"Winter is coming" in Greece. But far from a fictional tagline, this is an anxious refrain heard around refugee camps as asylum seekers brace for the coming weather in tents that can't properly protect them from the damp and cold...
A Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Turkmenistan correspondent, Soltan Achilova, was questioned by police on October 25, 2016, for taking a picture of a food line. Then, she was assaulted and robbed by unknown assailants. Her assault was just the latest in a series of attacks on the media outlet’s correspondents in Turkmenistan.
From earlier today: Who will become the next president of the United States, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? On Tuesday, presidential elections are taking place in the US, and the stakes couldn't be higher...
Witnesses have told Human Rights Watch that the joint Russian-Syrian military operation has attacked a school complex including a kindergarten in the Syrian town of al-Haas while children were in class, killing dozens. “There were so many torn bodies on the ground. And schoolbooks mixed with blood."

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