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US President Donald Trump’s repeal on Sep 05 of a program protecting from deportation immigrants who arrived in the United States as children will harm hundreds of thousands of people with strong ties to the US, Human Rights Watch said on Sep 05. Based on media reports, Trump would support legislation protecting the “Dreamers,” those protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, in exchange for congressional support for the RAISE Act, which would drastically reduce legal immigration to the US, as well as increased funding for the border wall and detention centers.

Under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s regular police and National Security officers routinely torture political detainees with techniques including beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, and sometimes rape, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released on Sep 09.

The city of Sa’ada in the Sa’ada Governorate has been heavily hit by airstrikes during the conflict in Yemen (file).

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (file).

China appears to be intensifying its crackdowns on North Korean escapees attempting to transit through China to seek protection, Human Rights Watch said on Sep 03. According to activists and North Koreans living South Korea who are in contact with people in China and North Korea, China has detained at least 41 North Korean refugees, and an undetermined number of their guides, in the past two months.

The Cambodian government should end its politically motivated threats and legal action to close the independent Cambodia Daily, Human Rights Watch said on Sep 02. The newspaper faces closure and confiscation of its assets on September 4, 2017, if it does not pay a US$6.3 million back tax bill based on false financial assumptions and rushed enforcement in violation of standard procedures.

The Thai Supreme Court’s dismissal of criminal charges against a former prime minister and his deputy for their role in the deadly crackdown on “Red Shirt” protesters in May 2010 is a serious setback for justice in Thailand, Human Rights Watch said on Sep 01. International human rights law makes clear that official status cannot justify immunity from criminal responsibility for serious human rights violations.

Map locating 700 buildings destroyed in August 2017 in the Rohingya-majority village of Chein Khar Li, Burma.

A United Nations Chinese battalion involved in the demining of the town of Hiniyah in Lebanon prepares to detonate unexploded ordnance.

Displaced children and adults in Syria are seen in a vehicle after fleeing from ISIL-controlled areas in rural Raqqa to Ain Issa, the main staging point for displaced families, some 50 kilometres north of Raqqa city.