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June 29, 2016
Burma: Dismantle Infrastructure of Repression
Repeal or Amend Laws Criminalizing Speech and Assembly
![Police vans bring detained student protesters from the district courthouse to Tharrawaddy prison in Pegu region on October 27, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-06-asia-burma-photo-08.jpg?itok=Xa2dP3xz)
June 23, 2016
Draconian Law Rammed Through Russian Parliament
Outrageous Provisions to Curb Speech, Privacy, Freedom of Conscience
![State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in session in Moscow, Russia on April 19, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/foreign_agents_26052016.jpg?itok=lHuvDFo8)
June 22, 2016
Kazakhstan: Activists Arrested after Land Protests
Criminal Charges Punish Free Speech
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June 20, 2016
Dispatches: China Should Talk with Monks, Not Evict Them
![The settlements of Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Serta county, Sichuan province, China on July 23, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/larunggar.jpg?itok=LZmHsZUa)
June 20, 2016
Dispatches: India Harasses Activists Seeking Justice
![A police van transports some of those convicted in connection with the 2002 riots in Gujarat, India on June 2, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-6-india-asia-gujarat.jpg?itok=tALE0Hub)
June 20, 2016
Turkey: Rights Defenders, Journalists Jailed
New Crackdown Targets Activists for ‘Terrorism’
![Ahmet Nesin, Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Erol Önderoğlu at the court house in Istanbul hours before being jailed pending investigation into spurious allegations of “making terrorist propaganda.”](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/ahmet_sebnem_erol.jpg?itok=fzhMWnSH)
![Nour T., a 16-year-old Syrian girl, at a group home in Gothenburg, Sweden.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/dsc_3430_-_version_2.jpg?itok=bKJ1xPxU)
June 17, 2016
Bangladesh: Halt Mass Arbitrary Arrests
Carry Out Proper Investigations to Identify and Prosecute ‘Machete Attacks’
![Police stand guard during a rally by activists demanding capital punishment for a group of bloggers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 12, 2013.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-6-bangladesh-asia-police.jpg?itok=nOvr8iGi)
June 14, 2016
Human Rights Watch Concerns and Recommendations on Kazakhstan
Submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee on the occasion of its Second Periodic Review of Kazakhstan
June 6, 2016
Azerbaijan: Berlin Should Urge More Prisoner Releases
Sustained Pressure Needed on Rights
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