She wanted to be president, but ended up jailed instead
By Kara Fox and Edward Kiernan, CNN
In the darkness of the Kigali night, Eric walks through a maze of cement homes crowned in corrugated metal. Using his phone he lights the road under his feet, a path of compressed red earth still drying out from the rainy season.
After nearly an hour of walking through a series of dizzying hills that make up the Rwandan capital, he reaches his safe house. Eric -- whose name has been changed for his safety -- says he's being watched by the government.
Staying more than one night is too risky. Tomorrow he'll move again.
'National shame': 147 Indigenous people die in custody in Australia in a decade
Calls for action after Guardian Australia publishes damning analysis
Australia’s shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people – some of them children – have died in custody in the past 10 years.
Opposition parties have declared it a “national shame” and Aboriginal groups have demanded the government immediately allow independent monitoring of all detention centres, with Indigenous prisoners as the priority.
Just 2.8% of the Australian population identifies as Indigenous. Yet Indigenous people make up 27% of the prison population, 22% of deaths in prison custody and 19% of deaths in police custody.
Malaysian court postpones lesbian couple's caning punishment for 'technical reasons'
'A few agencies will be involved in the punishment, and there are some technical issues that have yet to be resolved'
The caning of two lesbian women by a religious court in Malaysiahas been postponed amid outcry from human rights activists.
The women had pleaded guilty to charges of having lesbian sex, in a country where strict Islamic laws forbid "sodomy" as a crime and a threat to the Muslim-majority country's conservative values.
The couple was sentenced to a fine and six strokes of the cane, but the punishment - scheduled to take place on Tuesday - was postponed by a religious court in Terengganu due to "technical reasons".
Violence in Chemnitz as leftist and far-right protesters clash
Neo-Nazis and leftist protesters took to the streets of Germany's Chemnitz after a murder involving migrants. Saxony police mostly managed to cope with sporadic violence, although the protests caught them by surprise.
The eastern German city of Chemnitz was gripped by a febrile atmosphere on Monday night as several thousand people took to the streets to demand foreigners leave Germany. At the same time, roughly 1,000 opposing demonstrators collected in a small park opposite far-right protesters to call on "the Nazis" to get out of the city.
The evening began calmly enough, as a heavy police presence kept the two sides apart and the groups confined themselves to jeering at each other beneath the gaze of Chemnitz's colossal Karl Marx monument. But by around 9 p.m., when the demonstrations began to move, six people were injured by fireworks and rocks thrown by members of both camps who were wearing the customary black hooded tops, gloves, face coverings and dark glasses.
Shaolin Temple raises the red flag
Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of kung fu and famous home of the fighting monks, has raised the Chinese national flag for the first time in its 1500-year history.
A flag raising ceremony on Monday was attended by officials from the United Front Work Department, which oversees religious groups in China because of the Communist Party's fear they may be a threat to its rule.
A new rule requiring religious venues to raise the Chinese flag at religious festivals was introduced on July 31. Shaolin Temple abbott Shi Yongxin said Shaolin should "take the lead", and held the ceremony at its gate on Songshan Mountain, a statement said.
Yemen conflict: UN experts point to possible war crimes by all parties
UN human rights experts believe war crimes may have been committed by all parties to the conflict in Yemen.
In their first such report, they allege Yemeni government forces, the Saudi-led coalition backing them, and the rebel Houthi movement have made little effort to minimise civilian casualties.
They point to the bombing and shelling of schools, hospitals and markets, in which thousands of people have died.
The coalition's air and naval blockade may also be a war crime, they warn.
The experts will present their report to the UN Human Rights Council next month.
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