{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"GrunkleBitcoin wrote","author_name":"GrunkleBitcoin (npub1ct…vh6w6)","author_url":"https://nostr.now/npub1ctpnpa7gfvmyecz8twe6mqys4z9veunwcwv8qd2g5xuwaqqshesqtvh6w6","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.now","html":"Global Human Rights Weekly — Week of 2026-10-26\n\nThis bulletin summarizes documented reports of repression and abuse worldwide from public sources.\n\n- Sudan (North Darfur): Amnesty International interviewed 25 civilians and reports that 17 of 19 residents were detained by the Rapid Support Forces after the capture of El Fasher, with accounts of torture, ransom demands, forced labour, and detention in schools, with Zaghawa and Masalit people described as more likely to be targeted. The city's population is now reported to be below 70,000, and the RSF had not responded to Amnesty's letter at publication. Source: Amnesty International, \"Sudan: El Fasher civilians suffer unlawful killings, detention and torture one year after city's capture by the RSF – new testimony,\" October 23, 2026.\n\n- Mali (Mopti region): Human Rights Watch reports that an apparent Malian military drone strike on September 16 killed eight men near Guélédié village, where civilians had gathered around a seller of paid internet access, and that detainees at the Sévaré army base said they were held in a shipping container and tortured by Malian forces and Russia's Africa Corps. The findings rest on remote interviews with 15 people and verified video; the defense ministries of Mali and Russia did not reply to HRW's letters. Source: Human Rights Watch, \"Mali: Army, Russia's 'Africa Corps' Commit New Abuses,\" October 22, 2026.\n\n- Tajikistan: Human Rights Watch reports, citing a media report, that activist Asadullo Boboev was sentenced on September 21 to 17 years in prison, including on an \"extremism through the internet\" charge linked to social media posts critical of authorities. Germany deported him on June 20 despite warnings from rights groups that he faced mistreatment and politically motivated prosecution. Source: Human Rights Watch, \"Tajik Activist Given Lengthy Prison Sentence,\" October 22, 2026.\n\n- India: A group of UN Special Procedures experts said that, according to reports received, police used batons against largely peaceful student-led protests in New Delhi and elsewhere, more than 7,000 people were detained and in some cases had phones seized, and internet shutdowns and blanket gathering bans were imposed. The experts described these as allegations reported to them and called for an independent investigation. Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), \"India: UN experts alarmed by fresh crackdown on protests and rights violations,\" October 20, 2026.\n\n- Financial repression (Russia, Turkey, Burma): The Human Rights Foundation's Weekly Financial Freedom Report reports that Russia plans to ban peer-to-peer digital asset trading between individuals from July 1, 2027, limiting trade to state-regulated intermediaries and barring transfers into self-custody wallets. The report also cites Human Rights Watch figures that Turkish officials ordered at least 1,270 X accounts blocked in September amid an investment fund investigation, and notes a Bitcoin service for basic phones in Burundi that works without internet access. Source: Human Rights Foundation, \"HRF's Weekly Financial Freedom Report #143,\" October 22, 2026.\n\nFurther reading:\n- Amnesty International, \"Yemen: Huthis must open Ta'iz roads immediately as thousands of civilians' lives are at risk,\" October 22, 2026\n- Amnesty International, \"Egypt: End judicial harassment of Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Atallah,\" October 21, 2026\n- Human Rights Foundation, \"China Casts a Wide Net for Travelers with New Exit and Entry Regulations,\" October 19, 2026\n- Human Rights Watch, \"Uganda: Ensure Justice for Killing of Rwandan Dissident,\" October 22, 2026"}