Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 11 February 2016
Education under attack in eastern Ukraine; stranded asylum seekers are "wrong nationality"; toll of Syria's war; Russia shuts down rights group; Boko Haram attack; Indonesia intimidation; China should free booksellers; North Korea propaganda; Sri Lanka war crimes; & Uganda elections...
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Russia shut down one of the most prominent human rights groups in the country. The Agora Association defended many Russians, including the opposition punk group Pussy Riot.
Civilians in Syria face dire circumstances as indiscriminate aerial attacks devastate entire cities and the international community fails to find a solution to the conflict. People fleeing Aleppo have few places to turn to for protection.
Indonesia asked app-makers to delete LGBT related "emojis" from their platforms for Indonesian users, capitulating once more to a growing anti-LGBT movement in the country.
From earlier today: Fighting in eastern Ukraine has damaged or destroyed hundreds of schools, with many of them also used by both sides to the conflict for military purposes, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today.
Asylum seekers who are "the wrong nationality" are stranded at the border between Greece and Macedonia in terrible conditions, where they are beaten by border guards or preyed on by smugglers if they try to move.