EU Sanctions Belarus Officials: Daily Brief
Belarus officials finally sanctioned by EU for violence against peaceful protesters; remembering Jamal Khashoggi; comment on UK's hypocritical approach to human rights; news update from Poland's campaign against LGBT people; Russia expands facial recognition despite privacy concerns; action needed to finally end impunity in DR Congo; and good news from California and Georgia.
European Union leaders have finally agreed on sanctions against regime officials in Belarus, as a response to the ongoing violence against peaceful protesters. But one prominent person is missing from the list...
Today marks two years since journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered by Saudi agents inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
The United Kingdom can truly be a force for good in the world, if the government would give human rights top priority in its foreign policy.
All is not well in Poland, a member state of the European Union that has become the scene of an aggressive anti-LGBT campaign, supported by the government.
A Kurdish man has died after security forces arrested him and another man and took them away from their village in southeastern Turkey in a helicopter last month.
The authorities in Russia are planning to expand the use of CCTV cameras with facial recognition software. What could possibly go wrong?
The authorities in DR Congo and the United Nations have not done enough to hold human rights violators to account and deliver justice to victims, over the past decades.
And there's very good news from California and (the country of) Georgia!