One of Australia's prisoners in Manus Island was just granted refugee status, after a long hunger strike. He can't walk or eat normal food. The Papuan government wants to move him away from the only place he can get medical care.

In Indonesia (and elsewhere), Islam stands for intolerance of queers.

Tradition in Java and Bali includes a lot of public cross-dressing. The forms of Islam that were common in Java in the past did not go in for repression. In the past few decades, repressive Islam has spread there. I've heard this attributed to funding from Salafi Arabia.

Israel has released Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq from imprisonment without trial. However, he is too sick to leave the hospital.

US citizens: call on Obama to nominate a progressive to the Supreme Court.

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