Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 14 October 2015

An international prosecutor has said she has enough preliminary evidence to launch an investigation into alleged war crimes committed during Russia’s brief war with Georgia in 2008. The request may open a window to justice, Human Rights Watch says. Alarming news from Afghanistan, where the Taliban have rolled out a hit list of media outlets it deems to be "enemy personnel". The war in Yemen has taken a terrible toll on civilians. The UN says at least 2,355 civilians have been killed and 4,862 wounded - the majority in coalition airstrikes. Doctors at a hospital in Melbourne, Australia, are refusing to discharge refugee children back into detention, saying it's "an unsafe environment" that would be detrimental to their health. Elections in Burma will go ahead next month despite brief talk of a possible delay. But voting will not go ahead in certain areas over apparent security fears. The refugee crisis in Europe is continuing. The release of a much anticipated report on the crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 brings victims and their families a step closer to the answers they need. Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent who's been found guilty of espionage in Iran after a secret trial, only learned about his conviction by watching state television, and is reported to be very despondent. A series of haunting photos have been released of the inside of the MSF hospital that was attacked by US forces in Afghanistan, killing at least 22 medical staff and patients. A credible and independent inquiry into the attack should be conducted.