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Gay marriage cake: customer takes case to European court

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By Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent

Gareth Lee to challenge ruling that Northern Ireland bakery had right to refuse to bake cake with pro-gay marriage message

Lawyers representing a man from Northern Ireland who sued a bakery for refusing to make a cake with pro-gay marriage message are going to Europe to challenge a supreme court ruling that its evangelical Christian owners had a right to refuse to bake it.

Belfast human rights law firm Phoenix Law confirmed on Thursday it had been instructed by Gareth Lee to take his case to the European court of human rights (ECHR).

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Uighur man held after leaking letters from Xinjiang camp inmates, says family

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By Lily Kuo

Abdurahman Memet believed notes from his parents and brother were proof they had been imprisoned in Chinese ‘re-education’ centres

A Uighur man who leaked letters from inmates at China’s secretive internment camps in Xinjiang has been detained, according to activists and relatives.

Abdurahman Memet, 30, a tour guide in Turpan, last year received letters from his parents and brother, written from inside detention centres in the far western region where as many as 1.5 million Muslims are believed to be detained in political “re-education” and other camps.

Related: China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority

Related: ‘This …read more

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Recipients of 2019 Marvin E. Frankel Award for Pro Bono Service Announced

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By DuffyC

New York City—Human Rights First today announced that it will present its annual Marvin E. Frankel Award to the law firms of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP in Houston; Ballard Spahr LLP in Washington, D.C.; Kobre & Kim LLP in New York; and Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius LLP in Los Angeles. The award, which is given to firms who exhibit outstanding dedication to pro bono service, will be presented on Monday October 28, at Chelsea Piers in New York City.

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The brutality of deportations from the UK | Letters

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By Letters

Suzanne Fletcher and Jackie Fearnley respond to a report on shackles and restraints being used on hundreds of deportees

Your article on the use of shackles and restraints on those being deported (12 August) is a shocking revelation of how those being removed from the UK are treated. The National Independent Commission on Enforced Removals (NICER) report by Citizens UK contained clear and workable recommendations to make such removals safe and humane. This includes the use of painless restraint only if absolutely necessary and ending the use of shackles .

It has long been Liberal Democrat policy to …read more

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My father called for reform in Saudi Arabia. Now he faces death | Abdullah Alaoudh

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By Abdullah Alaoudh

A tweet resulted in Salman al-Odah’s arrest. If he is executed it will be state-sanctioned murder

In September 2017, my father, the prominent Saudi reformist Muslim scholar Salman al-Odah, tweeted an innocuous message to his 14 million followers encouraging the government to end its diplomatic standoff with Qatar. A few hours later he was taken from our home by state security officials. He now faces the prospect of being executed on charges that include spreading corruption by calling for a constitutional monarchy, stirring public discord, incitement and “mocking the government’s achievements”.

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China’s conduct in Hong Kong comes under cautious scrutiny on Q&A

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By Helen Davidson

Panellists debate whether Australia ‘turning a blind eye’ to China’s rising power

As demonstrators shut down Hong Kong’s airport on Monday in protest against police brutality, Chinese official said “terrorism” was emerging in the city.

Meanwhile, on the ABC’s Q&A program, the “people’s panellist” guest suggested he shared China’s view, prompting one of the more cautious political discussions ever held on the show.

Related: Australian travellers stranded in Hong Kong after protesters shut down airport

People’s Panellist Li Shee Su believes there’s ‘another player’ in the Hong Kong protests. Drew Pavlou disagrees with Li Shee’s comments <a target="_blank" …read more

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Indonesia angered as West Papua independence raises its head at Pacific forum

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By Ben Doherty

Breakaway leader Benny Wenda will use meeting in Tuvalu to push for UN vote on Jakarta’s control of province

Human rights violations and political independence in West Papua are set to command debate at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum, where Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda will urge government leaders to support the “Free Papua” campaign amid recent escalating political violence.

Exiled from Papua, but now an official representative attached to the Vanuatu government’s delegation, Wenda is campaigning for a United Nations general assembly resolution next year that will re-examine the controversial 1969 Act of Free Choice vote that formalised Indonesian control …read more

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Shackles and restraints used on hundreds of deportees from UK

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By Diane Taylor

David Lammy MP says ‘chilling’ figures reveal abuse of power by authorities

Hundreds of people deported from the UK were restrained by a variety of methods including shackles, the Guardian has learned.

There were 447 cases where one or more forms of restraint were used between April 2018 and March 2019. Information on restraint using rigid bar handcuffs, leg restraints and waist restraint belts was provided to the Guardian in a freedom of information response.

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Gillian Triggs says ‘vindictive point-scoring’ behind Coalition’s medevac repeal

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By Josh Taylor

New UN assistant high commissioner for protection urges Scott Morrison to use political mandate for more humane refugee policy

The Coalition government’s campaign against the refugee medical evacuation laws is based on “mistruths” and “vindictive point-scoring”, the former president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs, says.

On Friday Triggs was appointed United Nations assistant high commissioner for protection, working with the UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi.

Related: One family’s horrific story shows why the medevac regime should stay | Katharine Murphy

Related: ‘I cannot stay, I cannot go’: the Manus refugees trapped in a …read more

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Bahrain activist jailed for criticising Grand Prix released

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By Nosheen Iqbal

Najah Yusuf pardoned after three years in prison for post against race and regime

An activist who was assaulted, tortured and imprisoned for three years for criticising the Formula One race in Bahrain has been freed by authorities today.

Najah Yusuf, a former Bahraini civil servant and mother of four children, was jailed in April 2017 after she criticised the race and the regime on Facebook. Yusuf was pardoned under a concession ahead of the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha, which takes place on Sunday, and is the first political prisoner to be released since 2011. Her family received a phone call from …read more

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