Donald Trump Heads To Europe: HRW Daily Brief
Donald Trump heads to Europe; civilians killed in #CARcrisis; Saudi executions; Islamist extremism in UK; China invites foreign doctors to treat Liu Xiaobo; Poland forcing asylum seekers back to Belarus; plight of refugees on Manus Island; Bahrain torture fears; & Sri Lanka promotes general who denies war dead.
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President Donald Trump is shortly to set off on a visit to Europe where the US leader is expected to break with tradition and visit Poland first. Trump will be welcomed by Poland's populist leaders who are closely aligned with his worldview, and who gained power with the same nationalisitc rhetoric that he employed. But many observers worry the move might deepen divisions in Europe and embolden Poland in its rights rollback.
Armed groups in the Central African Republic have killed civilians "with wholesale impunity", spurring yet more violence in the war-torn country, HRW said in a report released today.
Saudi Arabia has now executed 41 people this year, while scores of others still languish on death row.
Staying with Saudi, the country is the chief foreign promoter of Islamist extremism in the UK, a new report claims. The Saudi Arabian embassy in London has denied the story.
China has invited doctors from the US and Germany to help treat Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, who has terminal liver cancer.
The Polish government is forcing asylum-seekers back to unsafe Belarus "in defiance of its duties as an EU member state”, several rights groups warned today.
The Manus Island detention centre off the coast of Australia is being shut down around refugees and asylum seekers while they are still living in it, reports suggest.
A promiment human rights defender arrested two days ago in Bahrain, Ebtisam al-Saegh, is at risk of torture and sexual assault while in custody, Amnesty International has warned.