November 22, 2018
Summing Up Day 1 of Rights Conference
HRW's Steve Swerdlow and Andrew Stroehlein sum up the highs and lows of the first day of the human rights conference in Samarkand.
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Vietnamese bloggers and rights activists are being beaten, threatened and intimidated with impunity.