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Human Rights Watch says Jordan is threatening and deporting Palestinians who are trying to flee Syrian violence. Jordan denies these claims, and is already home to approximately 2 million Palestinian refugees from the Arab-Israeli wars. [The Washington Post]
Turkish journalists protest police raids which threaten freedom of the press. The European Court of Human Rights has ranked Turkey as having the worst press freedom of the member states of the Council of Europe. [The Guardian]
Egyptians are apathetic about human rights, with women being beaten in the streets and no pressure for the new president to address the issue of civilians being held and tried by the military. Egyptian human rights lawyers say things like freedom of the press are treated “as a luxury”. [The Record]