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Pakistani authorities should conduct a prompt and impartial investigation into the killing of human rights activist Khurram Zaki and appropriately prosecute those responsible, Human Rights Watch said on May 10. Zaki, 40, had been publicly critical of extremist cleric Abdul Aziz and militant sectarian groups.

Afghanistan’s government should immediately halt further executions and impose a moratorium on the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said on May 10. The executions by hanging of six Taliban prisoners on May 8, 2016, were the first capital sentences carried out by President Ashraf Ghani since he took office in 2014.

Thai authorities charged eight Facebook users with sedition and computer crimes for mocking Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha online.

A United States Border Patrol Agent who shot an unarmed Mexican child in the back across the border should not escape justice if the shooting was unlawful, Human Rights Watch said in a friend-of-the-court brief.

Participants and the 2016 session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye.

In a harrowing incident of honor killing a 16-year girl, Miss Amber, from Makol village near the town of Dunga Gali, distrct Abbottabad Khyber Pakhtun Khuwa (KPK) province was burned alive on 29th April 2016 for helping her friend elope. Because of her help her friend was married The incident caught media attention after a picture of charred body inside a burnt vehicle began to go viral on social media. An investigation was conducted after the civil society raised its concerns. Upon investigation it transpired that the victim Amber was burned alive on the orders of a so called Jirga (an illegal judicial system of tribal customs) to teach the girls around the area a lesson. The Jirga had decided that in order to stop ‘love marriages’ in the area, the helper girl must be punished to set an example for other girls. According to the Dunga Gali Police the Jirga was headed by Sardar Pervez, a local government councilor and a “notorious” leader of whom the entire village is afraid.

The Nepal government should ensure that investigations into all deaths and injuries during the protests in the southern Terai region last fall are fast, transparent, and independent, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

The leadership of the Worker’s Party of Korea selected at the upcoming party congress should urgently address the serious rights abuses committed by the government, including forced labor connected with the congress, Human Rights Watch said on May 5, 2016.