What's Needed After Coup in Sudan: Daily Brief

Thousands of people in Sudan have taken to the streets to protest against a military coup. Sudan’s military leader has declared a state of emergency, hours after his forces arrested Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other civilian leaders.

The Islamic State of Khorasan Province is carrying out bombings and other targeted attacks against Afghanistan’s Shia religious minority that amount to crimes against humanity. The group has also carried out other mass casualty attacks, including the suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport, that killed 170 Afghans, mostly civilians, on August 29.

The Israeli government has launched another attack against the human rights movement. The Defense Ministry has issued a military order declaring six Palestinian civil society organizations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to be “terrorist organizations.” The groups are Addameer, al-Haq, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees.

Pope Francis has made an impassioned plea to end the practice of returning migrants rescued at sea to what he describes as "true concentration camps" in Libya and other countries where they suffer “inhumane violence.”

A critic of Zimbabwe’s government fears for his life. Apostle Talent Chiwenga has fled his house following heightened surveillance of his church and home in the capital Harare by people in unmarked vehicles. The authorities should ensure his safety and free speech rights, says Human Rights Watch.

When will the authorities in Turkey finally release the unjustly jailed philanthropist and human rights defender Osman Kavala?

And we end the Daily Brief with elections in Uzbekistan and a question: can governments stop being authoritarian?