Amnesty International has launched a campaign titled “Egypt, an Open-Air Prison for Critics,” which aims to highlight the government’s repression of free speech.

Namibian President, Hage Geingob, has expressed the need to expropriate land and redistribute it to the majority black population.

The current proposal aims to “transfer 43 percent, or 15 million hectares (58,000 square miles) of its arable agricultural land, to previously disadvantaged blacks by 2020. At the end of 2015, 27 percent has been redistributed, according to the Namibia Agriculture Union”.

Leaders from the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee have called on the US government to formally acknowledge crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar as a genocide.

An Egyptian actor and activist has been jailed for uploading a Facebook video in which she described sexual harassment she experienced and criticised Egyptian public services.

Amal Fathy uploaded a video on Facebook in which she criticised “poor public services at a local bank, heavy traffic, sexual harassment by a taxi driver and over a general deterioration in living conditions”. She was arrested two days later by Egyptian security forces who arrived at her door and arrested her alongside her husband and young son. The latter were later released. The government have accused her of spreading false news which jeopardises national security and joining a terrorist organisation. In addition to these charges she faces a fine of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (£430).

A Canadian government decision to strip citizenship from a former member of a Nazi death squad was reasonable, a federal court judge has ruled.

The ruling could make way for the 94-year-old to be deported and tried for war crimes charges, although appeals are still possible.

Guatemala’s military committed genocide and crimes against humanity during the country’s 36-year war, a court has ruled, while acquitting the former intelligence chief of all charges.

Guatemalan judges on the tribunal ruled unanimously that the military forces had committed genocide, however the intelligence chief Jose Mauricio Rodriguez was acquitted in a 2-1 decision, Al Jazeera reports.

Hundreds have gathered in India's capital to protest against the continued practice of manual scavenging, after the deaths of sewage cleaners, who are from a 'low-caste' background and forced to enter the sewers to unclog drains and remove human waste with their bare hands. 

The Indian government's statistics indicate that “at least one Indian worker has died while cleaning sewers or septic tanks every five days since the beginning of 2017”. 

The Hong Kong government’s decision to ban the pro-independence Hong Kong National Party is a grim sign for human rights in the territory, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.

Hong Kong’s secretary for security told the party’s convenor that the party’s promotion of Hong Kong independence was a “blatant violation” of Hong Kong’s functional constitution.

The party’s alliance with pro-Tibet and pro-Taiwan independence groups also came under fire.

Canada’s House of Commons has unanimously voted to recognise the crimes committed by Myanmar against Rohingya Muslims as genocide this week.

In a motion, Canadian legislators said they "recognise that these crimes against the Rohingya constitute genocide" and called on the UN Security Council to refer the case to the International Criminal Court.

Israel has ordered villagers in a Bedouin village, Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank to leave their homes as it plans to demolish their village within the next eight days.

The decision has been deeply criticised by EU countries, namely France, Poland, Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy.

Opposition politician and music star Robert Kyagulanyi (aka Bobi Wine) was arrested by Ugandan police upon his arrival at the international airport in Kampala on Thursday.

Kyagulanyi had returned to Uganda from the United States, where he sought treatment after reportedly being tortured by the Ugandan security forces.

Authorities have however denied allegations of torture, whilst the police has stated that he was not arrested, but “peacefully escorted” home.

Bangladesh has signed a $50 million grant financing agreement with the World Bank to strengthen its health services in order to respond to the needs of its population of almost a million Rohingya refugees.

Thousands took to the streets in Addis Ababa to protest against ethnic violence targeting minorities and perpetrated by the country’s majority Oromo ethnic group.

The Azerbaijan state has lost an appeal to bring a defamation case against two French journalists, AP reports.

Azerbaijan attempted to file the case against journalist Elise Lucet and the then-news director of France-2 TV over a 2015 investigative report which called the country a “ferocious” “dictatorship”.