Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 17 June

Police in Turkey break up protests with excessive force and target a hospital. The G8 starts in Northern Ireland, but diplomats' eyes are on Syria. The United Nations debates the issue of children in armed conflict. Tunisia jails rapper for a song, and internet freedom conference opens in Tunis. Turkey was again in the headlines at the weekend as police once more cracked down on demonstrators with excessive force, this time even firing teargas into a hotel where victims wounded in earlier attacks had been taking refuge...   Unions in Turkey have called a strike today in protest... Children's Rights director Zama Coursen-Neff live-tweeted the United Nations debate on children and armed conflict and challenged the assertions made by several governments... The G8 Summit opens in Northern Ireland, where disagreements over the Syria conflict are the top talking point...   See extensive Human Rights Watch research here... A new round of executions indicates that Kuwait is moving in exactly the wrong direction regarding the death penalty.