New York (hrw) – The climate for free expression in Egypt has worsened since Hosni Mubarak was ousted a year ago, Human Rights Watch said today. Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) should act to end assaults on journalists by security forces. It should cease prosecutions based on laws violating media freedoms, [...]
DUBAI: Leading human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Malaysian government to not deport a Saudi journalist accused of insulting Islam on his personal Twitter account. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Hamza Kashgari, 23, a Jeddah-based newspaper columnist, would face almost certain conviction and a death sentence for apostasy [...]
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s government should follow through on promises to address citizenship claims of stateless residents, known as Bidun, Human Rights Watch said today in issuing its World Report 2012 at a news conference in Kuwait City. The government should also amend its national laws to protect domestic workers following its approval, in June 2011, of [...]
A new report published by New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that French police are party to abusing their power when dealing with black and Arab men and boys. The rights group said that police “conduct unwarranted and abusive identity checks” against the minorities. The 55-page report, “The Root of Humiliation: Abusive Identity Checks [...]
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates during 2011 muzzled the right of its citizens to express themselves and to form independent associations, Human Rights Watch said today in issuing its World Report 2012 at a news conference in Dubai. UAE authorities harassed, arrested, and jailed activists, and disbanded the elected boards of two of the country’s [...]
SANA’A: The passing of a law granting President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his political associates’ immunity from prosecution ahead of the autocrat’s departure for the United States of America is being heavily criticized by Human Rights Watch. The organization argues that such a law bears no value as it directly contradicts international law. The “immunity [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Serious violations in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories were ongoing in 2011, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report Sunday. It listed Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, ongoing settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and home demolitions in East Jerusalem. But it also noted Palestinian rocket and [...]
CAIRO: Iran used the death penalty in an alarmingly increasing manner last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in Cairo while launching their global rights report. The New York-based organization reported that the country had the highest execution rate for minors. Iran executed at least three children in 2011, one of them in public, while [...]
BANGKOK (dpa): Human Rights Watch blasted Thailand Thursday for forcibly repatriating a Hmong refugee to Laos last week in violation of international law. Thai authorities handed over Ka Yang, a registered refugee with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Bangkok, to Lao officials December 17 on the Thai-Lao border, the New-York based human rights [...]
There is an escalating pattern of physical attacks by Egyptian military and police officers against women and male protesters, journalists, and activists in Cairo, some of which are sexual in nature, Human Rights Watch said today. News reports and images of protesters in Cairo being stripped, beaten, and dragged through the street in the past [...]
Leading international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Tunisian government to crackdown on “fundamentalists” over the continued attacks at university campuses in the country. “The Tunisian authorities should protect individual and academic freedoms from acts of violence and other threats by religiously motivated groups acting on university campuses,” Human Rights [...]
The Kenyan Parliament’s vote to make cancer treatment free of charge will save lives and promote the right to health, Human Rights Watch said today. The Kenyan government should move quickly to turn the decision into reality, and donors should help fund the effort, Human Rights Watch said. “The majority of cancer sufferers in Kenya [...]
The two investigating judges at the hybrid Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), created to try Khmer Rouge mass crimes and to bring justice to the Cambodian people, have egregiously violated their legal and judicial duties and should resign, Human Rights Watch said today. The co-investigating judges, You Bunleng (Cambodia) and United Nations-nominated [...]
The United Nations Human Rights Council’s weak response to the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in Yemen betrays the Yemeni people, Human Rights Watch said today. The Council, whose current session ended on September 30, 2011, adopted a resolution on Yemen that fails to push for either an international investigation into recent abuses or an [...]
The South African government’s reluctance to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama, Tibetans’ spiritual leader, has no objective basis and appears to be based on no more than fear of Chinese government displeasure, Human Rights Watch said today. South Africa rejected a similar visa request in 2009. The Dalai Lama has been invited to attend Archbishop [...]
Vietnamese authorities should immediately end their crackdown on religious activists and free 15 people detained for expressing their beliefs, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrests, primarily targeting Catholic Redemptorists, are a new blot on the country’s already problematic record on freedom of religion. The current wave of arrests began on July 30, 2011, when [...]
The killing and mutilation of Zaynab al-Hosni, 18, by unknown persons highlights the urgent need for the UN Security Council to demand access to Syria for an international investigation into rampant killings and torture in Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. Zaynab, whose brothers are active in anti-government protests, had vanished in late July after [...]
Alleged insurgents were responsible for detonating three bombs at a nighttime entertainment area in Thailand’s southern Narathiwat province that killed five civilians and wounded 118, Human Rights Watch said today. Violence in southern Thailand has claimed the lives of more than 4,700 people in the past seven years. The September 16, 2011 bombings, in Narathiwat’s [...]
Frontex, the European Union’s external border enforcement agency, is exposing migrants to inhuman and degrading conditions, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today. Migrants apprehended along Greece’s land border with Turkey are sent to overcrowded detention centers in Greece, Human Rights Watch said. EU justice and interior ministers are expected to approve changes [...]
Yemeni security forces used excessive force when they opened fire on anti-government protesters in Sanaa on September 18, 2011, and in Taizz on September 19, killing at least 27 and wounding hundreds, Human Rights Watch said today. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that security forces in Sanaa first sprayed demonstrators with sewage, and then, after [...]
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