Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 28 June

In today's Brief: In Guinea, the highest official yet charged with the 2009 stadium massacre of 150 people. Mass surveillance in the UK, and what the government needs to do. Sure, US courts have attorney-client privilege - just not Gitmo. Militant group Boko Haram torches more than 200 schools in Nigeria. And Captain Europe, blue cape waving, saves the day. Guinea charges Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Pivi for his role in the horrendous 2009 massacre of at least 150 Guineans, who were intentionally trapped then killed in a football (soccer) stadium.
In Guinea’s capital, Conakry, family members cry after identifying the body of a relative killed on September 28, 2009. © 2009 路透社 Reports that the UK’s intelligence agency has intercepted and collected vast amounts of Internet and phone data raise serious concerns about the breach of privacy rights for millions of people. A decade after the US apprehended the accused planners of the Sept. 11 attacks and locked them up in Gitmo, the US military is still obstructing the men's communications with their lawyers. In Nigeria's Yobe State, its children who will suffer the most after the militant group Boko Haram burned hundreds of schools.
Captain Europe strikes again! With a cameo by HRW's Germany Director Wenzel Michalski. Guess which is which.
Several recent incidents have increased concerns about the Afghan government’s commitment to women’s rights, and there are justifiable fears the situation for women will only deteriorate further after international combat forces withdraw in 2014. Human Rights Watch is calling on international donors to make it clear to Kabul that if Afghanistan doesn’t defend women’s rights, the money will no longer flow for the country's security forces. From Thailand comes a horrific story about the rape of a Rohingya woman -- a refugee who had fled the oppression and mass violence in Burma -- who was taken out of a Thai government-run shelter in Phang Nga province by human traffickers.