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Police in Chechnya have carried out a new round of unlawful detentions, beatings, and humiliation of men they presume to be gay or bisexual.
The new abuses come against a backdrop of absolute impunity for the vicious large-scale anti-gay purge in spring 2017, in which police rounded up and tortured dozens of men they suspected of being gay.
One man, "Anzor," spent seven days in unlawful detention, during which time police officials beat and tortured him with electric shocks, and humiliated him, among other forms of cruel and degrading treatment.
Newly released Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo received a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of a massacre by Myanmar’s military. But they have lost more than 500 days of their lives in prison, time they will never get back.
Human Rights Watch recently reported on disturbing allegations that survivors of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique were being forced to have sex with community leaders in exchange for food. The next day, the United Nations pledged to investigate the allegations.
When the Zika virus hit Brazil in 2015, there were international headlines and widespread panic. Thousands of infants were born with disabilities linked to the virus. Nearly four years later, the families raising children affected by the virus feel all but forgotten. Read their stories in a new blog.
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