Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 19 May 2015

In Turkmenistan, authorities have expanded their campaign to remove private satellite dishes from private homes -- an apparent attempt to limit access to independent sources of information. India is denying education to millions of children of marginalized marginalized groups, like Dalits. Human Rights Watch Special Advisor Fred Abrahams has released a gripping narrative on the last days of the Cold War in Europe. Modern Albania offers front-row seats to the fall of Communism in Albania in 1990 and discusses in detail the effects that event has had on Albania and the wider region since. From earlier today: Under fierce media pressure, international governments are starting to pull together ideas as to how to handle the twin migrant crises in the seas of both Europe and Asia. But so far, the focus has disappointingly been on military solutions aimed at protecting borders, and less on the moral and humanitarian imperative to save lives. Five years after political violence in Thailand in which soldiers used excessive and unnecessary lethal force against protesters, not a single member of the military has been held accountable for the deaths and injuries sustained during the 2010 protests. South Sudan's military and security services have unlawfully detained dozens of civilians, some for as long as 10 months, and in some cases tortured or brutally beaten those in custody.