Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 5 May 2015

Violence is continuing in Burundi's capital Bujumbura with protesters refusing to leave the streets amid President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid to run for a third term in office. At least 13 people have died so far and four protesters were reportedly killed on Monday. Thousands of Burundians have also fled the country over fears the unrest will spread further. Civilians in Syria's second city of Aleppo are suffering "unthinkable atrocities" according to a new report from Amnesty International. Both government and rebel forces are committing war crimes on a daily basis, Amnesty says, and a resident there described Aleppo as "a circle of hell". Terrible details are emerging about the fate suffered by women and girls who have been freed from Boko Haram captivity in the forests of north-eastern Nigeria. Several hundred hostages have been freed in recent days. The Obama administration was right to call for the end of "conversion therapy" - a largely ineffective and harmful method that tries to "cure" LGBT youth. But children should retain the right to explore other therapies they may find useful, as they explore the complex matters of gender and sexuality. As Azerbaijan gears up to host the European Games in Baku next month, the EU is being urged to forge a robust, principled and coordinated response to the country's brutal crackdown on journalists and activists. Two Tunisian journalists who represented the best of 'new' Tunisia, post its Arab Spring, appear to have been murdered in Libya in a courageous bid to tell the world what's really happening there. In the wake of several high-profile fatal police shootings in the US, a serious national debate how begun over exactly when a police officer should be allowed to use deadly force. Anti-slavery activists say thousands of children are going missing from some of India’s remote rural areas, most likely to be trafficked and used as domestic child labourers in India's big cities. Two German journalists who were in Qatar working on a story about FIFA say they were detained by authorities there and had material on their phones and laptops erased. They were also not allowed to leave the country for several days.