Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 4 June 2015

A recent murder in the Philippines highlights the country's problem of security forces carrying out extrajudicial killings, and no one being held to account. There is a momentary glimmer of hope in war-torn Central African Republic, as a group of cattle herders who have been effectively trapped in a small area in squalid conditions are finally free to move about. They previously could not, fearing for their safety. From earlier today: Police in Uzbekistan carried out a "vicious assault" on one of the country's bravest rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said today. Police detained Elena Urlaeva on May 31 and, during an 18-hour interrogation, also forcibly sedated her and then subjected her to cavity searches, x-rays and others abuse. As the world marks the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, young Chinese increasingly want to talk about it. But that has Beijing running scared. The human cost of the conflict in Yemen is made devastatingly clear in this piece about a family who found themselves on the frontline. The first four refugees to be transferred from Nauru Island to Cambodia as part of Australia's controversial offshore processing policy have arrived in Phnom Penh. The Syrian government has once again apparently used toxic chemicals in several barrel bomb attacks in Idlib governorate in April and May of this year - defying a UN Security Council resolution.