![American environmentalist Phil Jacobson was deported from Indonesia to the United States in January 2020 after 45 days under city arrest in Central Kalimantan for an alleged visa infraction.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_indonesia_jacobson.jpg?h=312c7ee5&itok=k0k_-znf)
![American environmentalist Phil Jacobson was deported from Indonesia to the United States in January 2020 after 45 days under city arrest in Central Kalimantan for an alleged visa infraction.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_indonesia_jacobson.jpg?h=312c7ee5&itok=k0k_-znf)
August 19, 2020
India: Contempt Conviction Threatens Free Speech
Supreme Court Uses Broad Powers to Muzzle Social Activist
![सुप्रीम कोर्ट के बाहर मीडिया से बात करते भारतीय वकील और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता प्रशांत भूषण, नई दिल्ली, भारत, 2 फरवरी, 2012.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_india_bhushan.jpg?h=0c910dd0&itok=YcSos_YB)
August 19, 2020
China is Desperate to Stop Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Movement
Government Blames Foreign Groups
![202008asia_china_hongkong_jimmylai](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_china_hongkong_jimmylai.jpg?h=c6980913&itok=2RBF3CM1)
August 19, 2020
Azerbaijan: Relentless Crackdown on Opposition
Halt Abuses, Ensure Due Process, Investigate Ill-Treatment
![Rally participants gather in front of the parliament building, Baku, Azerbaijan, July 14, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008eca_azerbaijan_parliamentrally.jpg?h=1c9b88c9&itok=7nEzkmXe)
August 18, 2020
Myanmar Bars Rohingya Candidates from Elections, Again
Politicians Persist Despite Violence, Persecution Against Muslim Minority
![Kyaw Min, head of the Democracy and Human Rights Party, speaks during a press conference in Yangon, Myanmar, January 10, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_myanmar_kyawmin.jpg?h=a409b52c&itok=P5poYVLd)
August 18, 2020
Two More Philippine Activists Murdered
Duterte Administration Had Once ‘Red-Tagged’ Both as Insurgents
![Zara Alvarez](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_philippines_alvarez.jpg?h=9ea59734&itok=jqjY8cMI)
August 18, 2020
Nepal Health Facility Births Decline by Half During Covid-19 Lockdown: Study
Global Pandemic Exposes Gaps in Health Care and Safe Birth
![A health worker wraps a baby born minutes before as the mother looks on at the government maternity hospital in Katmandu, Nepal, September 10, 2010.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_nepal_womensrights_maternity.jpg?h=732ddf39&itok=5WjQY66M)
August 18, 2020
Averting a Mushroom Cloud of Impunity in Lebanon
Independent International Investigation Needed for the Beirut Blast
![Aftermath of the explosions at Beirut's seaport, August 5, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008mena_lebanon_explosions.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=3ih8ZwHn)
August 18, 2020
A Carpet of Bodies: One Woman’s Ordeal in Detention in Belarus
![People argue with police during a rally after the Belarusian presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, late Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008eca_belarus_argue.jpg?h=fe27537e&itok=zULoOUlv)
August 18, 2020
Jordan: Escalating Repression of Journalists
Latest Escalation in Media Restrictions
![Thousands of Jordanian teachers march from the governorship building to the Professional Unions Complex to demand a reversal of the decision to close the Teachers Union, in Irbid, Jordan on August 01, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008mena_jordan_teachers.jpg?h=0d27ee61&itok=nHSh18pY)
August 17, 2020
Kazakhstan: Extend, Expand Covid-19 Aid
Hundreds of Thousands Facing Poverty, Economic Hardship
![202008bhr_kazakhstan_coronavirusrelief](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008bhr_kazakhstan_coronavirusrelief.jpg?h=c12e0b96&itok=2AAv9NLT)
August 17, 2020
Rwanda: 6 Months On, No Justice for Kizito Mihigo
Authorities Failed to Conduct Credible Investigation into Death in Custody
![Kizito Mihigo speaking to the media in Kigali on April 15, 2014 after nine days in incommunicado detention.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008africa_rwanda_kizitomihigo.jpg?h=21dd645a&itok=qtkKlMXn)
August 17, 2020
Tulsa Race Massacre Recognized, At Last
![Reverend Robert Turner of the historic Mount Vernon African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, damaged in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/05/202005_us_reparations_tulsa.jpg?h=36dd900b&itok=KNJzh3e5)
August 17, 2020
Venezuela: Human rights organizations call on UN Human Rights Council to extend and strengthen Fact-Finding Mission
![Members the National Police Action Force, or FAES, an elite commando unit created for anti-gang operations, patrol the Antimano neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201909americas_venezuela_faes.jpg?itok=DFjm5VdF)
August 17, 2020
Egypt: Spate of ‘Morality’ Prosecutions of Women
Arrests, Jail for Violating ‘Family Values'
![Egyptian influencers Hanin Hossam and Mawadda al-Adham, who were sentenced to two years in prison on charges of violating public morals, on the video-sharing app TikTok in Egypt's capital Cairo.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008mena_egypt_tiktok.jpg?h=39ddfeda&itok=wocnRoeY)