Plus: Reports Rohingya villagers were gang-raped by government soldiers in Burma; Saudi coalition airstrike on Yemen prison kills 58; free Iran's Narges Mohammadi; France failed to protect children at Calais migrant camp; Morocco protests as fish seller dies; & shooting the messenger in DR Congo...

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Turkey's crackdown is getting worse. The government has shut down 15 media outlets and detained the editor of a well-known opposition newspaper in the latest assault on free expression since a coup attempt in July. Some 160 media outlets have now been forced to close since the failed coup.
Ethiopians have taken to the streets over the past year in widespread, largely peaceful protests. Security forces have responded with violent dispersal tactics that have left scores dead and hundreds detained. Most recently, the government imposed a six month state of emergency, under which draconian restrictions on free speech and assembly push the country further toward a human rights crisis...
For years, Rwandan authorities have been rounding up street vendors and arbitrarily detaining them in transit centers throughout the country, claiming that they threaten cleanliness and security. But instead of locking up its poorer residents in squalid conditions, the Rwandan government should instead create economically viable alternatives.
From earlier today: New satellite imagery appears to show that at least three Rohingya villages in Burma's Rakhine State have been burned to the ground, Human Rights Watch said in fresh research released today. The disturbing new images reveal a level of destruction that demands an impartial and independent investigation, "something the Burmese government has yet to show it’s capable of doing” says HRW.
Staying with Burma, Rohingya Muslims say government soldiers raped or sexually assaulted dozens of women in a remote village last week, during the biggest upsurge in violence against the persecuted minority in four years.
At least 58 people have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a prison complex in western Yemen, officials say. Most of the dead at the prison, which houses people doing time for minor crimes or those in pre-trial detention, are said to have been inmates.
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