Trump's Cover Up for Saudi Crown Prince: Daily Brief
Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Bin Salman still has powerful supporters; Airbnb shouldn't cave in to criticism after West Bank rentals decision; Venezuela’s health crisis; Ukraine's martial law raises human rights concerns; Uganda killings; campaign against Google's China plan; US Congress should slash, not increase, funding for abusive immigration enforcement system; and check out our Uzbekistan blog.
Protests during his Tunisia visit, legal problems if he travels to Argentina: Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman is rightly under fire. But he still has powerful support, even after the gruesome murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi: US president Donald Trump and his administration.
Airbnb made the right call last week, when it announced it would end rentals on stolen land in the occupied West Bank, and should stick to its decision.
The health crisis in Venezuela demands an urgent regional response, says HRW's researcher Tamara Taraciuk Broner in this Washington Post op-ed.
The parliament in Ukraine has voted to enforce the declaration of martial law in the country’s 10 regions that border Russia, following clashes between the two countries’ forces earlier this week.
Two years after Ugandan government forces killed more than 100 people in Kasese, western Uganda, family members of those missing or killed still wait for justice.
Amnesty International has launched a worldwide campaign to convince Google to cancel its controversial plan to launch a censored search engine in China.
The United States Congress should slash, not increase, funding for the abusive immigration enforcement system of the Trump administration.
And kindly check out our Uzbekistan blog, with news updates, tweets and videos from a country that was for decades controlled by one of the world’s most abusive regimes, but that is now on a different path.