Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 15 November
Libya, China, Burma, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Iraq, EU, Uganda, killer robots, Uzbekistan
In Libya, violence erupted in Tripoli in the deadliest day in the capital since the 2011 revolution. HRW's Hanan Salah is on the ground covering the chaotic scene at the Bou Sleem trauma hospital.
The Chinese government has finally responded to years of international
and domestic criticism by announcing it will abolish Re-education Through Labor. The Chinese Communist Party
Central Committee also loosened the one-child policy. While a step forward, the revised policy will still wrongly limit reproductive rights, and lead to abuses.
Police have long used Re-education Through Labor as an expedient tool for suppressing dissent and incarcerating
government critics, petitioners, whistle-blowers, rights activists, and members of underground Christian churches or banned religious sects.
The release of 69 political prisoners in Burma today is cause for
optimism that the drawn-out persecution of peaceful activists, which
reached its apex just a few years ago when up to 2,000 people were locked up, is drawing to a close.
Now the government needs to take its reform efforts to another level.
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