Is Russia Trolling On Domestic Violence? Daily Brief
Fighting back against domestic violence in Russia; Iran crackdown; Vietnamese critic facing jail time; ringing the alarm on killer robots; Amazon moves towards supply chain transparency; China's Xinjiang problem; Afghanistan littered with deadly munitions; & countdown to Israel's expulsion of Human Rights Watch staffer...
Accounts of horrific, and sometimes fatal, domestic violence increasingly make headlines in Russia. But authorities just aren’t taking the issue seriously, including with their latest ludicrous claim that men in Russia are more likely to suffer from discrimination in domestic violence cases than women.
Iran's president has claimed victory following a deadly crackdown by security forces on protests over petrol price rises. Amnesty International has received credible reports that at least 106 people have been killed since the protests erupted on Friday, but others put the death toll as far higher.
A longtime human rights advocate and critic of the Vietnamese government is facing trial for his social media posts.
Major military powers are racing to embrace weapons that select and fire on targets without meaningful human control - so called 'killer robots'. But there is increasing recognition that it’s time to ring the alarm on these weapons systems.
Amazon has taken a useful first step toward transparency by publicly disclosing on its website the names and addresses of more than 1,000 facilities that produce Amazon-branded products.
China’s struggle to explain away the detention of at least one million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang has become much more difficult recently, with UN rights experts and others increasingly voicing their concerns.
War after war has left Afghanistan littered with thousands of deadly munitions, with the power to permanently devastate families.
And finally, it's just four days to go now until HRW's Israel & Palestine director is due to be deported from Israel - a decision which has sparked an outcry.