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The Bangladeshi authorities should halt ongoing mass trials, related to the 2009 mutiny by members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), which have been proven repeatedly to violate basic fair trial standards. On October 22 a military court convicted 723 of the 735 accused in the Sadar Battallion of the BDR, after a mass trial which did not meet fair trial standards.

Police rounded up dozens of youth and political party activists in central Baku on October 20, 2012, roughing them up and forcing them into police cars and buses, Human Rights Watch said. Many were fined and released, but at least 13 were sentenced to 10 days of detention on misdemeanor offenses.

Alexei Kravets in front of his home on the Black Sea coast in Sochi. The house is slated for demolition to make way for a key road for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Colombian honour guard at the Presidential Palace in Bogotá.

Saleh Amhad Abdullah, 16, in intensive care at Aden's al-Nabiq Hospital, two days after being shot in the head on October 7, 2012, during an exchange of gunfire while he was selling fruit outside the medical center.

The Pakistani government should take immediate steps to protect students, teachers, schools, and rights defenders at risk of attack, Human Rights Watch said.

Filda lost her leg in a landmine explosion in Uganda. She faces discrimination in her community and has not benefitted from government livelihood assistance programs.

President Benigno Aquino III should sign into law a bill criminalizing enforced disappearances in the Philippines, Human Rights Watch said. The Philippine Congress passed the bill, the Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012, on October 16, 2012, and sent it to the president for signature.

OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, during a ceremony where she received a Trafficking in Persons Hero Award from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to honour her significant contributions in the struggle to end modern-day slavery, Washington, 19 June 2012.