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Syrian refugees fleeing the fighting near the Syrian city of Kobani wait in a holding area before boarding buses in Turkey (September 2014).

The government of Thailand should stop forcibly sending people of Turkic ethnicity to China, where they face persecution, Human Rights Watch said on July 9. The Thai government announced that on July 9, 2015, it had returned about 100 “Uighur immigrants” to China, while at least 65 other people of Turkic ethnicity remain in immigration detention.

Burma’s President Thein Sein should refuse to sign into law the discriminatory interfaith marriage bill passed by parliament on July 7, 2015, Human Rights Watch said on July 9. The bill targets Buddhist women who marry – or seek to marry – non-Buddhist men and introduces vaguely defined acts against Buddhism as grounds for divorce, forfeiture of custody and matrimonial property, and potential criminal penalties.

Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Bangura, briefs journalists.

The former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré goes on trial on July 20, 2015, almost 25 years after being toppled in a coup, charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes, and torture before a specially commissioned court in Senegal.

Imposing a state of emergency does not give the Tunisian government the right to gut basic rights and freedoms. President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on July 4, 2015. The measure comes one week after an extremist gunned down 38 European tourists at a beach resort near Sousse.

Imposing a state of emergency does not give the Tunisian government the right to gut basic rights and freedoms. President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on July 4, 2015. The measure comes one week after an extremist gunned down 38 European tourists at a beach resort near Sousse.

Mohammed, 42 and three of his relatives who were orphaned in the attack on June 25, 2015 in Kobani, Syria.

In a rare case of successful intervention by the Pakistan police, a Christian couple has been saved from being lynched by an angry mob in a Makki Village, Sheikhapura District, in Punjab, Pakistan. Unlike previous cases, where charged up mobs have burnt and beaten to death innocent Christians, accusing them of blasphemy, the timely intervention by the police on this occasion has come as a pleasant surprise.