Trafficking Survivors' Nightmares Continue Back Home in Nigeria: Daily Brief

Trafficking survivors' nightmares continue back home in Nigeria; collective punishment in Kashmir; Lebanon bars activists from the country; Australian writer dubiously charged in China; Uzbekistan pledges to close "house of torture"; and some good news in the case of the man whose name became a symbol in the fight against human rights abusers.
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A new report, “‘You Pray for Death’: Trafficking of Women and Girls in Nigeria,” provides detailed accounts of how human trafficking operates in Nigeria and finds that the nightmare does not end for survivors who manage to return home. 

In Kashmir, the Indian government's blackout of communication channels is a form of collective punishment that cripples daily lives and economic activities

Lebanon has banned a group of activists and academics from re-entering the country following their participation in a gender and sexuality conference. 

China has charged an Australian writer with serious crimes under highly dubious circumstances... 

Uzbekistan's president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, announced that the notorious Jaslyk prison would be closed. Since it opened in 1999, Jaslyk stood as a symbol of Uzbekistan’s terrible human rights record, a “house of torture” for thousands of religious prisoners, government critics, and others. Some inmates never made it out alive. If this means that the country is turning the page on torture, it's very good news.

There's some good news in the case of Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian lawyer who died in police custody in 2009 - and whose name has since become synonymous with a movement to apply targetted sanctions against human right abusers around the world. The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia, finding that the medical care given to Magnitsky in prison had been inadequate and had led to his death, and also  that the subsequent investigation had been lacking.

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