"Unbearable Pain" In Guatemala; Forced Back To ISIS; Letter From A Bahrain Jail: HRW Daily Brief

Thousands of patients with advanced illnesses in Guatemala suffer unnecessarily from severe pain because they cannot get appropriate pain medications, HRW said in a new report today. The US State Department has reacted to violence outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington DC earlier this week, when bodyguards working for President Erdogan of Turkey - in town to meet President Trump - clashed violently with peaceful protesters. Turkish Embassy officials appear to be unrepentant about the attack. In other US news, in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, US immigration authorities have followed the president’s executive order to increase interior immigration enforcement by arresting thousands of immigrants with no criminal history. Nabeel Rajab, the prominent Bahraini human rights activist who has now spent 10 months in jail without trial, has written this powerful piece from his prison cell. China is building a "vast DNA database" with no appropriate privacy protection, HRW has warned. While a genetic database of convicted or suspected criminals exists in many countries, China is thought to include anyone, regardless of valid grounds for suspicion. Victims of Hillsborough, one of the worst disasters in modern British history, used the Human Rights Act - which has been much-pilloried by the right-wing UK press - to get justice for themselves and their families. What can be more terrifying than fleeing ISIS? Being forced back to ISIS. Yet that is the fate of some 300 displaced families near Mosul in Iraq, who have been forced back to areas levelled by the fighting that not only are severely short of water, food and electricity, but are also at risk of being attacked again by Islamic State. The US has declined visas to gay Chechens fleeing a wave of kidnappings, torture, and disappearances in the semi-autonomous Russian region, according to the group Russia LGBT Network.