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(Saudi Arabia/Children’s Rights) Saudi Arabia Drops Death Sentence Against Child Protestors (HRW)

Bill Van Esveld Saudi Arabia has commuted the death sentence imposed on Ali Mohammed al-Nimr for participating in protests when he was a child. https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/11/saudi-arabia-drops-death-sentence-against-child-protestors  

(UAE/Free Speech) UAE: Jordanian Convicted for Criticizing Jordan on Facebook (HRW)

The decision of a United Arab Emirates (UAE) court to sentence a Jordanian resident of the UAE to 10 years in prison in October 2020 was based entirely...

(USA/Rights) What Biden Needs to Do to Restore Rights at the Border (HRW)

Michael Garcia Bochenek Almost three years ago, the world heard a group of children sobbing in anguish after US border agents forcibly separated them from their parents....

(Impunity) IFEX-ALC condemns new attempts to obstruct justice after 32 years of impunity in case of journalist Hugo Bustíos (IFEX)

IFEX-ALC is concerned over reports of obstruction of justice in the case involving retired general and current Peruvian presidential candidate Daniel Urresti Elera. Urresti...

(Europe/Digitalisation) Digitalisation surges in Europe during the pandemic (The Economist Intelligence Unit)

The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has prompted an unprecedented shift online of people’s day-to-day lives, both in Europe and around the world, via remote working,...

(Myanmar) Civil society, businesses condemn junta’s draft Cyber Security Law (Frontier Myanmar)

Draft law would require ICT companies to keep data onshore and provide it to the government on request, while users deemed to have spread...

(Myanmar) Civil servants increasingly quit their desks to resist the coup (Frontier Myanmar)

Across Myanmar, staff are walking out of government offices to oppose military rule, despite pressure from their superiors and threats of punishment from the...

(Myanmar) Min Aung Hlaing’s constitutional crisis (Frontier Myanmar)

SITHU AUNG MYINT The results of the November election finally convinced the Tatmadaw chief he will never become president under the rules of the constitution,...

(Myanmar) Junta amnesties more than 23,000 but arrests continue (Frontier Myanmar)

The State Administration Council says it has remitted the sentences of more than 23,000 people to “please the public” but is continuing to arrest...

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