Missing Out On School in Mauritania: Daily Brief

Missing out on school in Muaritania; Islamist rebels kill 11 in DR Congo; "humanity close to collapse" in Syria's eastern Ghouta; ditch fake news bill in Malaysia; leading activist attacked in Russia; Venezuela police cell fire kills 68; Egypt's Mohamad Morsi "may die" in jail; where is China's Liu Xia?; and being intersex...

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Children in Mauritania are being kept from attending school simply because the registration process is too complicated, new research from HRW suggests.
Islamist rebels are suspected of killing at least 11 civilians in an attack in northeastern DR Congo.
A letter from a senior MSF staffer to doctors working in Syria's eastern Ghouta is heartbreaking, sure, but it also perfectly captures the horror on the ground there.
The government of Malaysia's proposed law criminalizing “fake news” is a frontal attack on free expression and should be withdrawn.
An unidentified assailant viciously attacked a representative of Memorial, Russia’s leading human rights group earlier this week, HRW has confirmed.
Rioting and a fire in the cells of a Venezuelan police station in the city of Valencia killed 68 people on Wednesday, according to the government and witnesses.
Egypt's former president, Mohamed Morsi, may "die prematurely as a result of inadequate medical treatment", and Egypt's current president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could be held liable for his treatment under international law, according to a panel of experts.

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