Women Driving, Women Jailed in Saudi Arabia: Daily Brief
Stand with Saudi feminists; Election win for Erdoğan in Turkey; Power of street protests in Poland; "Sportswashing" at the football World Cup in Russia; Attack against Roma in Ukraine; Dalit rights activists detained in India; EU should stand up for Vietnam’s people; and #Pride2018 in New York.
The ban on driving for women in Saudi Arabia finally came to and end on Sunday, but the brave female activists who helped make this happen are behind bars or in exile...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey, will stay in power for five more years after elections that were held on Sunday.
Despite an escalating crackdown on peaceful protest in Poland, courageous people continue to demonstrate against abuse of their rights and threats to the rule of law, says Amnesty International in a report released today.
The football World Cup in Russia is in its second week, and Oyub Titiev, a courageous activist from Chechnya, is still behind bars. So is Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years in prison on bogus terrorism charges after a show trial. Who's the World Cup winner so far? Vladimir Putin? Or Chechnya's ruthless ruler Ramzan Kadyrov?
A group of masked people has attacked a camp of Roma on the outskirts of the city of Lviv, in Ukraine. They killed one man and wounded four others. Such violent attacks by extremist groups have been increasing in Ukraine.
Authorities in India should cease arrests of Dalit rights activists for their work, Amnesty International and HRW said today. The recent arrest and detention of five Dalit and Adivasi rights activists for alleged terrorism-related offenses appear to be politically motivated.
Will Cecilia Malmström, the European Union’s trade commissioner, speak up for the rights of people in Vietnam when she is meeting top officials from the Vietnam government today in Brussels?
And New York celebrated Pride this weekend!