Syria attacks; South Sudan killings; Yemen airstrike: HRW Daily Brief

Plus: Nigeria's Chibok girls; transgender abuse in Sri Lanka; call to compensate victims of Egypt's mass killings; Syrian refugee spends 1 year in airport limbo; illegal detentions in Bangladesh; & student protesters jailed in Hong Kong...

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Fighting in Syria's second largest city of Aleppo killed dozens of civilians over the weekend, a high toll even for a city that has seen intense fighting recently. Meanwhile, multiple attacks across Syria have left more than 100 dead in the last 24 hours as civilian casualties continue to mark the country's deepening conflict.
One year after South Sudan’s leaders signed a peace deal "civilians are dying, women are being raped, and millions of people are afraid to go home", Human Rights Watch said in a new report today. HRW says soldiers killed and raped civilians and extensively looted civilian property during last month's clashes between government and opposition forces in South Sudan’s capital, Juba.
Transgender people face discrimination and abuse in Sri Lanka, Human Rights Watch said as it released fresh research today.
Ten children died and scores more injured as they sat exams in what Yemeni officials described as an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a school in northern Yemen. A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition claims the airstrike hit a rebel training camp and that children were present there as recruits.
In Nigeria, the extremist group Boko Haram has released a video showing some of the schoolgirls it abducted from the town of Chibok more than two years ago. Footage of Chibok girls supposedly killed in airstrikes was also released.
Egypt’s parliament should pass a law to establish a new and impartial investigation into the mass killings of protesters in 2013 - notably the infamous Rab'a Square massacre - that should lead to accountability and compensation for victims’ families.

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