May 6, 2016
The Rights Weekender
!["Adam," arrested in Kenya in February 2015 on homosexuality charges and subjected to a forced anal exam, sorts through police documents on his case. © 2015 Zoe Flood](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/hrw_mombasa_aug2015-0992_2_002.jpg?itok=EfhTfHIG)
![Somali women and children fleeing their homes in Nairobi’s predominantly Somali suburb of Eastleigh on November 20, 2012, two days after an attack on a bus by unknown perpetrators caused Kenyan gangs to riot and attack Somali refugees and Somali Kenyans.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/kenya0513_coverimage.jpg?itok=0i1K5nQu)
![Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, accompanied by his Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gul, talks to media as they leave the Justice Palace in Istanbul, Turkey on May 6, 2016. © 2016 Reuters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/dundar_photo_2.jpg?itok=wj-Hr2YI)
![Still from a video showing protests inside of Hama Central Prison, north of Homs, Syria, that began on May 1, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/screen_shot_2016-05-06_at_4.11.48_pm.png?itok=ly_u9ees)
May 6, 2016
Thailand: Junta Arrests Activist’s Mother
‘Insulting the Monarchy’ Charge Filed for Inaction to Facebook Message
![Thailand 2016_05_06](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/thailand_5_6_16.jpg?itok=PU4VLK9E)
May 6, 2016
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
![A view shows the damage at al-Quds hospital after it was hit by airstrikes, in a rebel-held area of Syria's Aleppo.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/screen_shot_2016-04-30_at_12.57.43_pm.png?itok=rNeSyRAo)
May 6, 2016
Yemen: Saudis Using US Cluster Munitions
End Production, Transfer of These Banned Weapons
![A failed BLU-108 canister, with two submunitions still attached, that was delivered by a CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapon during an attack on the quarry of the Amran Cement Factory on February 15, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/9.jpg?itok=-CWNeTNW)
May 5, 2016
Japan: Bullied LGBT Students Unprotected
Policies, National Curriculum Ignore Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
![manga drawing by Taiji Utagawa of a transgender man with head down in the dark with three white spots leading into the distance](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-05-asia-japan-main-new.jpg?itok=8V6-8Bqu)