News Clips – February 3, 2017 – International Justice Resource Center

This week hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrated across Romania in response to an emergency ordinance that decriminalizes certain cases of misconduct of allegedly corrupt officials. [Guardian]
Two human rights activists who were arrested last month and charged with terrorism for organizing peaceful protests to support Anglophone rights in Cameroon continue to be imprisoned, and may face the death penalty. [Guardian]

Fighting over the weekend and into Monday in the Donetsk region of Ukraine disrupted access to electricity and water for thousands. [UN News Centre]
On Friday, a representative of al-Shabaab claimed that its fighters have killed over 57 Kenyans who were part of a regional peacekeeping mission at the border of Somalia and Kenya. [Guardian]

On Wednesday, British MPs approved the first stage of the Brexit bill, which triggers the beginning of the two-year exit negotiations. [Al Jazeera]
On Wednesday, Israeli police carried out court-ordered evictions in Amona as Israel announced 3,000 new settlements in the West Bank. [Guardian]
On Monday, United States President Trump fired acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates after Yates issued a memorandum directing department attorneys not to defend Trump’s executive order that prevents immigrants from predominantly Muslim States and refugees from entering the U.S. [New York Times]
This week the African Union readmitted Morocco back into the regional organization from which Morocco left in 1984. [Guardian]

This week the Central American Minors (CAM) in country refugee program has been immobilized due to the U.S. executive order that bans refugee admissions for 120 days, leaving 9,000 applications in flux. [Guardian]
This weekend, the Bangladeshi government re-introduced a plan to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote island, which has been described as uninhabitable. [Guardian]
This week, hundreds of screened and ready to travel Somali refugees in Kenya had their resettlement plans halted by United States President Trump’s executive order that stops the admission of refugees. [Guardian]
This week, allegations of torture and systematic rights abuses in refugee camps in Libya were confirmed by the German embassy in Niger. [Guardian]

On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice held that an asylum seeker’s request can be rejected on the basis of their ties to a terrorist group, including logistical support. [Washington Post]
On Friday, a Czech court dismissed a discrimination suit lodged by a Somali refugee who was prevented from wearing a headscarf in school. [Al Jazeera]