In today's Brief: Mass kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria; Journalists beaten, shot, and tear-gassed for reporting on Venezuela protests; Sudan bombs hospital; Ethiopia cracks down on student protesters; thousands of children forced to beg in Senegal; Odessa tragedy in Ukraine unrest; government exacerbating a humanitarian crisis in Iraq; US policy toward Egypt; World Press Freedom Day; Ethiopia crackdown; and bombings in Syria.
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Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 5 May 2014
Ukraine, Nigeria, Iraq, Egypt, press freedom, Ethiopia, Syria
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