Human Rights Watch

Turkish gov't denies that new security bill restricts rights

Interior Minister Efkan Ala has defended the controversial new security draft, saying it does not restrain citizens? rights.

The government and the main opposition party?s portrayals of a draft security bill have been in stark contrast, with the latter arguing that it marks a return to the infamous Sept. 12 military coup d?état regime.

For gay Syrians, jihadist threat adds new fear

Since jihadists from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized control of two northeastern Syrian provinces, Jad has lost all contact with friends there from the country's tight-knit gay community.

The 32-year-old gay man, part of a community that has long suffered from persecution in socially conservative Syria, fears the worst.

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