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The Egyptian authorities are increasingly using counterterrorism, state-of-emergency laws and courts to unjustly prosecute journalists, activists, and critics for their peaceful criticism, says Human Rights Watch.

With an estimated 7,000 migrants entering Yemen each month, most of them seeking to reach Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, the United Nations migration agency has called for greater efforts to protect them from smugglers and other criminals.

A leading human rights lawyer has said the government faces a number of fresh legal challenges over its handling of cases involving the Windrush Generation.

Amnesty says the release of activists detained for protesting against the cost of food and healthcare is not something on which the government should be congratulated .