Some interesting law and religion news stories from around the web this week:

• Five Guantanamo detainees asked a judge to forbid women guards from touching the prisoners because their Muslim traditions prohibit women other than their wives or relatives from touching them.
• A confidential report by the global chemical weapons watchdog has found mustard gas being used in Syria during violence between ISIL and a rebel group. The use of chemical weapons including mustard gas violates several international laws.
• Thai campaigners, inspired by the radical Buddhist movement in Myanmar, want Buddhism to be made the country’s official state religion in a new constitution.
• Members of a motorcycle group that demonstrates outside the Westboro Baptist Church pleaded not guilty to picketing during a religious event, preparing to litigate whether the American flag is a “banner” under the relevant statute.
• The FBI has delayed the release of its new, game-style Web site to be used in schools to help the agency spot and prevent radicalization of youth, amid concerns from Muslim and Arab advocacy groups that fear it will foment discrimination against Muslims.
• A judge conducting a civil trial in Istanbul became the first judge in the country to preside over a trial wearing a headscarf, something banned by law until recently.
• Kim Davis has appealed the district court rulings ordering that she license same-sex marriage and sending her to jail for refusing.
• For the fourth time in six weeks, a Muslim in India was killed by Hindu vigilantes for suspicion of slaughtering, stealing or smuggling cows.
• America’s main Modern Orthodox rabbinical association voted, by a small margin, to ban the hiring of clergywomen by its members.
• The UN’s special advisors on genocide expressed concern about the “politicization of ethnicity and religion” in Myanmar, as the country heads into what is expected to be its most credible election in a quarter-century.
• The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom strongly criticized Tajikistan’s “ongoing efforts to control religious activity” and urged Secretary Kerry to raise religious freedom concerns with officials in Tajikistan during his trip there.
• 27 civil society organizations have called on Vietnam to edit a controversial draft law on religion, saying it would place “sweeping, overly broad limitations on the practice of religion or belief within Vietnam, perpetuating the already repressive situation.”