Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 19 June 2014

Syria, Iraq, China, Iran, Burma, Thailand, Israel, World Cup

In today's Brief: Julian Assange and Wikileaks; her majesty's mass surveillance; US responds to anti-LGBT bill in #Uganda; 161 nations ban landmines but not the US; Europe in a grumpy mood; the power of words in the West Bank; "Serious abuses" in Kurdish-run Syria; Syria's barrel bombs; Iraq latest; rights tussle in Hong Kong; China jails activists; Iran jails an activist (and wants to execute a child bride); movie night in Burma; Cambodians flee Thailand; Israel threatens witnesses; and is the World Cup truly evil?