Trump Should Remove Bannon & Gorka: Daily Brief
Trump should remove Bannon & Gorka; US to restart working with Egypt's military; Feminism scares authorities in Russia; India plans to deport thousands of Rohingya refugees; Iran’s execution epidemic; Death penalty in Malaysia; and Rare good news from Uzbekistan.
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After the deadly violence by rightwing extremists in Charlottesville, President Trump must do more than find the right language of condemnation. His administration should reverse its decision to eviscerate the mandates and budgets of civil rights institutions; end its attempt to exclude white nationalism from the federal government’s Countering Violent Extremism programs; end immigration and refugee policies based on anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant sentiment; and remove Stephen Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, officials with known links to or a history of encouraging the white nationalist movement.
In the latest sign the Trump administration is looking to overturn Obama-era policy at home and abroad, the United States military is preparing to restart a long-running military exercise with Egypt, after President Barack Obama had cancelled it in 2013 to protest the killing of hundreds of demonstrators in Cairo.
Feminists are the latest group of people deemed a security threat to the Russian state...
The authorities in India are planning to deport thousands of Rohingya refugees back to Burma. Meenakshi Ganguly, HRW's South Asia director, has slammed the plan: "India is aware of the risks of abuse, and India has an international obligation to protect them."
MP's in Iran have approved a long-awaited amendment to the country’s drug law that significantly raises the bar for a mandatory death sentence. “If the amendment becomes law, it could save hundreds of people from execution who never should have been on death row in the first place,” says HRW's Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson. When the Cabinet in Malaysia announced plans to amend legislation to eliminate the mandatory death penalty for some drug offenses, many cheered. But history shows that the enthusiasm may be premature... And rare good news from Uzbekistan, where Erkin Musaev, a United Nations employee and former government official, has been released from prison. He was tortured and unjustly jailed in 2006. Many other peaceful dissidents are still behind bars, and should also be released.
MP's in Iran have approved a long-awaited amendment to the country’s drug law that significantly raises the bar for a mandatory death sentence. “If the amendment becomes law, it could save hundreds of people from execution who never should have been on death row in the first place,” says HRW's Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson. When the Cabinet in Malaysia announced plans to amend legislation to eliminate the mandatory death penalty for some drug offenses, many cheered. But history shows that the enthusiasm may be premature... And rare good news from Uzbekistan, where Erkin Musaev, a United Nations employee and former government official, has been released from prison. He was tortured and unjustly jailed in 2006. Many other peaceful dissidents are still behind bars, and should also be released.
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