Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 20 March 2015

The latest Boko Haram horror in Nigeria: witnesses report members of the militant group preparing for battle by slaughtering "wives" (read: women captured and forced into sexual slavery). In Bangladesh, an opposition leader has apparently been disappeared, last seen being led away in handcuffs by men identifying themselves as police... The UN commission of inquiry for Eritrea has reported “ruthless repression” and systemic human rights violations. A mob in Afghanistan has burned a woman to death for allegedly desecrating the Koran, a murder caught on video... Serbia has made its first arrests in relation to the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. China is apparently blocking Reuters news websites inside the country. This follows a similar restriction on Bloomberg News, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and others. In theory, the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is supposed to give the public timely access to information about government. But in practice? Someone at football's international governing body FIFA may have a sense of humor... But it's not very funny...