Indonesia protests against corrupt elites

Controversy over housing allowance, which is almost 10 times minimum wage, comes amid President Prabowo Subianto’s austerity drive. Riot police have fired water cannon and rounds of teargas at thousands of stone-throwing protesters in capital as anger over the lavish allowances of parliament members has fuelled public anger. Thousands of…

EU and Spain risk rights abuse complicity in Mauritania

Racial and ethnic profiling, extortion, mass arrests, detention for days or weeks with little to no food, collective expulsions, beatings and torture: these are just some of the violations migrants, asylum seekers, and others have experienced over the past several years at the hands of security forces in the context…