Trump Video Will Make Autocrats Rejoice: HRW Daily Brief

United States president Donald Trump is dominating news headlines again after he posted a tweet with a mock video of him beating up a man whose head was replaced by the logo of CNN. The video appears to originate from an infamous group that is known as a hub for racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and misogynist content. The authorities in Kenya should urgently investigate allegations of threats and intimidation between community members in Naivasha before elections next month. Naivasha was among the areas with the worst 2007-2008 post-election violence, in which inter-ethnic rivalries over land and power, stoked by politicians, left over 1,100 people dead. Allegations are emerging of Iraqi forces beating and unlawfully killing men and boys fleeing Mosul in the final phase of the battle against 'Islamic State' extremists. This weekend marked the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s transfer from British to Chinese control. Carrie Lam became the new chief executive of Hong Kong, but China's president Xi Jinping made it very clear who is really in control. The United Nations Security Council has approved a major reduction of peacekeepers in Darfur, the vast region of Sudan where violence continues against civilians. The World Bank has a big problem: forced labour in Uzbekistan. Act now and tell president Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank to suspend its agriculture loans to the Uzbekistan government. The #MuslimBan and other abusive policies of the Trump administration have awful consequences for a lot of innocent people. Check out this Instagram page, dedicated to grandmothers who can't visit their kids and grandchildren in the United States because of the ban.