Plus: Poor conditions for refugees on Greek island of Lesbos will worsen during winter; Council of Europe should reject new rules on treatment of people with disabilities; Saudi Arabia tortured women activists; Uzbekistan should let activists attend rights forum; another mass child kidnapping in Cameroon; reporter Maria Ressa wins Press Freedom award; and Syrian refugee Nujeen Mustafa listed in BBC’s 100 Top Women.

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Libyan security forces reportedly used force and tear gas to remove 79 migrants and asylum seekers from a ship in the port of Misrata in Libya this week. The group had refused to leave the ship for 10 days for fear that they would be inhumanely treated in detention. 

The dire conditions in the crowded camps in Lesbos, Greece might worsen further during this coming winter, putting thousands of vulnerable asylum seekers at risk. The EU-backed containment policy is aggravating the long-lasting suffering of asylum seekers, turning Lesbos into an open-air prison.

Council of Europe member states should reject new proposed standards regulating the detention and forced treatment of people with disabilities, which propose involuntary hospitalization and treatment of people with a so-called “mental disorder” in Europe.

Saudi Arabia security forces tortured jailed women’s rights activists through administering electric shocks and whipping.

The Asian Forum for Human Rights begins this week, but some activists might not be allowed to attend.

Just two weeks since more than 70 schoolchildren were abducted and then released in Cameroon, another 80 children have been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen in the same English-speaking region of the country.

The veteran reporter Maria Ressa has been awarded the Committee to Protect Journalists' prestigious Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award.

And Nujeen Mustafa, who fled Syria in a wheelchair as a teenager, has been named one of the BBC's Top 100 Women for her inspirational work campaigning for refugees.