Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 25 March 2015

The first person to be re-sentenced under new child offender laws in California will soon be released from prison. The new laws require judges to consider not only that the person was a juvenile offender, but also the choices they’ve made since being convicted. Iran's Vice President for Women and Family Affairs has stated that women in Iran are respected and empowered. Sounds nice, but reality shows different. Opposition party members in Bangladesh are being "disappeared" by security forces. The families left behind are unable to properly grieve, wondering if the disappeared are dead or alive. The government should ensure those taken are returned and that their abductors brought to justice. Croatian law deprives people with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities of their right to make decisions for themselves. Even more shocking, many hospitals tie these people to their hospitals beds. From earlier today: Are slaves catching the fish you eat? According to a major AP investigation, that's a very real possibility. The supply chains of the fishing industry in Thailand and elsewhere in South-East Asia have long been tainted by allegations of forced labour. There's breaking news out of Chad today, where a court has convicted 20 officials of torture carried out under the rule of the country's former dictator, Hissene Habre. The court has also ordered significant financial compensation for more than 7,000 victims of Habre's brutal 8-year rule, which led to him being dubbed 'Africa's Pinochet'.