Turkey Tortures People in Police Custody: Daily Brief

Tomorrow, the UN Security Council will discuss attacks on education. It's time member states took a stand and protected millions of children worldwide from the dangers of attacks on and military use of schools. Pakistan’s Senate chose to mark yesterday's International Day of the Girl in an unusual way: by rejecting a bill that would have raised the minimum age for girls to marry from 16 to 18. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is finally feeling the heat. Today, he buckled to growing public dismay over his murderous “war on drugs” and ordered a suspension of the Philippine National Police’s anti-drug operations. But it's not enough without accountability for the thousands killed already. People in Turkey accused of links with terrorism or the 2016 coup attempt have been tortured in police custody while others have been abducted, HRW said in a new report today. Staying with Turkey, one hundred days after their wrongful arrest, Amnesty International is leading a global demand for the immediate and unconditional release of 11 prominent human rights defenders. Spanish police used "excessive force" when confronting demonstrators in Catalonia during the disputed referendum, using batons to hit protesters and causing multiple injuries, new HRW research has found. Tanzania's president has condemned teenage girls who become pregnant as "immoral", and banned them from ever returning to school.