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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world.
Italy: Prosecutors secretly recorded human rights lawyers | The Guardian
Prosecutors in Italy have secretly recorded hundreds of conversations between human rights lawyers and their clients in cases related to allegations that NGOs operating rescue boats that saved thousands from drowning in the Mediterranean were complicit in people smuggling.
France: State slammed for deporting Chechen refugee to Russia despite risk of torture | Euronews
France has been criticised for deporting Chechen refugee Magamoed Gadaev to Russia despite several court rulings saying he should not be expelled, human rights groups said.
Five Yazidi women who say they were held as slaves by the notorious Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf have failed in a high court bid for compensation.
Turkey: High-profile writer freed after European human rights ruling | Financial Times
Turkey has released prominent journalist Ahmet Altan from jail after almost five years on charges relating to a failed military coup, one day after the European Court of Human Rights ruled he had been wrongfully detained.
Hong Kong: Pro-democracy activists jailed for illegal assembly | DW
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and eight other pro-democracy activists were sentenced today for illegal assembly.
Krygyzstan: Why survivors of sexual violence can’t get justice in Kyrgyzstan | openDemocracy
The police and judicial system are inadequate, and society often blames women themselves when they are raped, kidnapped and murdered.
China: Closure of online feminist groups sparks call for women to ‘stick together’ | Reuters
Several Chinese feminist channels on Douban, a popular social networking forum in China, were abruptly shut this week, triggering online anger and prompting calls for women to “stick together”.
I.A. Rehman, a Pakistani journalist and human rights activist who spent decades opposing military dictators and fighting for the rule of law and democracy, died on Monday in the eastern city of Lahore. He was 90.
US: Biden named a lawyer with transphobic tweets to Supreme Court commission | VICE News
A member of President Joe Biden’s new commission to evaluate whether to expand the Supreme Court has a history of tweets undermining transgender people and their rights, with a particular fixation on famous trans women.
Jewish scholars defend the right to academic freedom on Israel/Palestine | The Conversation
Canadian Jewish scholars have released a statement to express alarm at attempts to intervene in campus activities relating to Israel and Palestine.
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