Hong Kong Descending at "Dizzying Pace": Daily Brief

Deepening crackdown in Hong Kong; Bangladesh's forced relocation of Rohingya refugees to prison island; Tanzania's police torturing Burundi refugees; Kazakhstan authorities targeting human rights groups; Belarus regime's abuses in the spotlight at UN Human Rights Council; draft law to protect women in Iran; the latest in the EU's democracy crisis; and ensuring an equitable vote in critical run-off elections in the US state of Georgia.
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Hong Kong authorities should drop all criminal cases and release from custody those arrested or convicted for their peaceful participation in pro-democracy protests.

There's more on Bangladesh's outrageous & unacceptable forced relocation of Rohingya refugees to the de facto prison island of Bhasan Char. 

Tanzania's police are torturing refugees from Burundi. 

Kazakhstan tax authorities are targeting over a dozen human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in the country with fines and possible suspension for alleged financial reporting violations, Amnesty International, Front Line Defenders, Human Rights Watch, and International Partnership for Human Rights said today.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet delivered her interim report on the crisis in Belarus today at the UN Human Rights Council.

A long-awaited draft law on violence against women in Iran still has some gaps.

The EU's democracy crisis (masquerading as a budget crisis) continues...

State and local election officials in Georgia should take immediate steps to ensure that every voter in the state has easy and equitable access to absentee ballot drop boxes in the lead up to the January 5, 2021, Senate runoff elections, Human Rights Watch said as it released a new data analysis of the issue.

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