5 Years of Australia’s Cruel Refugee Policy: Daily Brief
Plus: anti-crime killings in Indonesia ahead of the Asian Games; Greece denies child asylum seekers education; Ethiopia and Eritrea should now protect rights; Morocco convicts journalist on dubious charge; law in Egypt gives immunity to military officials; & remembering Mandela...
A new HRW video shows the human cost of Australia’s cruel refugee policy. Refugees and asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru describe the last five years as living in a hellish legal limbo, marked by great uncertainty about their future.
An anti-crime campaign by police in Indonesia has led to 10 killings in 11 days. The upsurge in killings, soon before the start of the Asian Games, points to a possible policy that needs an urgent and impartial investigation.
Greece is denying thousands of asylum-seeking children an education because of a migration policy that trap families on the Aegean islands, HRW said today.
The new peace deal agreed between Eritrea and Ethiopia offers an important chance of reform in both countries, particularly for ending egregious rights abuses.
By sentencing this journalist to three years in prison on the dubious charge of "failing to report a security threat", Morocco’s authorities are sending a chilling message to the remaining independent journalists in the country.
Egypt’s parliament has passed a law that could make senior military officers immune from future prosecution over the violence that followed the 2013 ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi.
And finally, the world is remembering Nelson Mandela, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday today.