Taliban Crack Down on Protesters and Media: Daily Brief
Taliban crackdown on protesters and journalists; researcher on Xinjiang crimes banned from Kazakhstan; mass expulsions of migrants and asylum seekers from Mexico; trial on Bataclan attacks in Paris begins; one year after the fire at the Greek refugee camp of Moria; and reflections on human rights organisations' work since 9/11.
In Afghanistan Taliban forces are cracking down on protests against the newly installed all-male government with restrictions of the right to freedom of assembly and physical attacks on protesters and journalists reporting on demonstrations.
Kazakh authorities have banned a Russian-American researcher from the country for five years in apparent efforts to stymy his work documenting abuses of ethnic minorities in neighboring China.
Mexico has been carrying out mass expulsion of migrants and asylum seekers of various nationalities to a remote area of the jungle in Guatemala, putting lives at risk.
France kicked off a landmark trial on the 2015 terrorist attacks on the music club Bataclan and other locations in Paris where 130 people where killed.
One year ago, the infamous refugee camp Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos burned down in a fire. Since then the situation of migrants and refugees in Lesbos and other islands in the Aegean has been an ongoing human rights crisis.
Finally, with the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks coming up, Ken Roth, Executive Director at Human Rights Watch, reassesses the work human rights organisations did over the past two decades.