Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 4 April 2014

Kenya, Thailand, Egypt, Afghanistan, Italy, Lebanon, Syria, Rwanda

April 4, 2014

In today's Brief: Kenyan cleric predicts own death; separatists terrorise southern Thailand; US mulls military aid for Egypt; women journalists gunned down in Afghanistan; migrants' moral victory in Italy; Lebanon's "bleak milestone" on Syrian refugees; and remembering Rwanda...

Kenyan authorities should promptly investigate the killing on April 1 of the prominent Muslim cleric who apparently predicted he would die just months ago. Abubakar Shariff, an imam known as Makaburi, is the third high-profile Muslim cleric to be gunned down in Mombasa in the past two years. He was shot by unidentified attackers at the law courts of a prison compound. Makaburi had complained of receiving threats but declined to seek police protection, saying he believed it was the police who were threatening to kill him. “I know they are going to kill me,” he told Human Rights Watch less than a year ago.

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