Misery on Manus Island: Daily Brief
Misery on Manus Island; Iraq's displaced families blocked from going home; "scary" US abortion bill ; Germany bins Egypt cyber training; airstrike kills 26 in Yemen; UN Security Council is MIA on Burma; future of Calais refugee camp; US General detained in Gitmo; & Harry Smith helps refugees.
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Australia has closed Manus Island, its controversial immigration detention centre, leaving hundreds of asylum seekers and refugees in limbo and without support. The United Nations has urged the Australian government to protect this vulnerable group, but detainees say they are surviving on packet food and digging in the ground to get water. Detainees say they are too scared to leave the center for fear of being attacked outside.
Iraqi security officials are preventing displaced families from returning home over their perceived ties to so-called Islamic State, new HRW research shows.
US Congress has held a hearing on a bill that would essentially ban abortion after six weeks’ gestation. While the bill is unlikely to pass, it signals a "dangerous normalization" of greater restrictions on abortion.
Germany has cancelled planned cyber training for Egyptian Interior Ministry officers over fears their new-found skills could be used to repress the opposition.
An air strike by a Saudi-led military coalition has killed 26 people at a hotel and a nearby market in Yemen’s northern Saadah province.
Two months into one of the most vicious ethnic cleansing campaigns in recent history, the United Nations Security Council is still missing in action on Burma.
UK parliamentarians are set to debate the situation for migrants and asylum seekers in the French town of Calais today, one year after the demolition of the so-called “Jungle” camp, and where conditions remain grim.
A US General has been sentenced to 21 days confinement at Guantanamo Bay for the 'crime' of defending the principle that attorneys ought to be able to defend their clients free from government surveillance.