US Should Protect the Press During Protests: Daily Brief
Detained US protesters held in overcrowded cells; Burundi President Nkurunziza is dead; Covid-19 outbreaks in UAE prisons; how did Cameroonian journalist Wazizi die?; Turkey stifles medical professionals' right to expression; landmark for justice in Darfur atrocities.
Rights groups have called on police to stop abuses against the press during the ongoing protests in the United States.
Across the United States, protesters, journalists, and sometimes bystanders have been arrested in large groups, and were detained for hours in crowded cells with no masks, no hand sanitizer, and no way to stay apart.
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza is dead. He’ll be defined by the brutal repression of the 2015 protests organized following his decision to run for a controversial third term in power.
UAE should allow independent inspections of prisons after reports of Covid-19 outbreaks in some facilities.
Activists in Cameroon say that journalist Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe, known as Wazizi, was disappeared, and the military kept his death hidden for 10 months.
Turkey’s investigations into medical professionals who speak publicly about Covid-19 is an infringement on their right to free speech.
And finally, a landmark for justice: Ali Kosheib, a leader of the Janjaweed who committed atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, has surrendered to the International Criminal Court.