Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

This past World Press Freedom Day followed a particularly dangerous year for the media worldwide; The welcomed release of over 200 women and girls from the clutches of Boko Haram sheds light on the horrors of their captivity; and there is little justice for the murder of a 27-year-old woman in Afghanistan - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary. You can find all our Dispatches here.

Dispatches: Why World Press Freedom Day Matters

Emma Daly
It has been a ghastly year for the media, as we look back on World Press Freedom Day...

Dispatches: Bring Back Their Rights

David Mepham
The rescue by Nigerian security forces of 200 girls and 93 women from a Boko Haram stronghold on Tuesday is a hugely welcome development...But Boko Haram’s track record suggests their experience is likely to have been a highly traumatic one...

Dispatches: Not Much #JusticeforFarkhunda

Heather Barr
The March 19 murder by a mob of a young woman named Farkhunda outside a mosque in central Kabul grabbed headlines globally...The May 6 verdict in the trial of the men accused of killing Farkhunda crushed many hopes...

Dispatches: Haw Far Will Burundi's President Go to Crush Opposition?

Carina Tertsakian 
On May 5 the Constitutional Court in Burundi ruled that President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to run for a third term in office was not contrary to the country’s constitution...But his attempt to cling to power has unleashed a wave of public protest, the government response to which appears to be spinning out of control...

Dispatches: Indonesia Executes Man With Schizophrenia

Phelim Kine
Indonesia’s Attorney General HM Prasetyo has high praise for the April 29 executions of eight people on the country’s death penalty island of Nusa Kambangan, even saying the executions were “better, more orderly and more perfect” than those of six people in January...