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Russia: Attempts to Stifle Dissent Before Summit
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 7:43 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Syrian authorities have amplified their crackdown against civil society activists, arbitrarily restricting several of them from leaving the country, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
Russia: Attempts to Stifle Dissent Before Summit
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 7:42 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Moscow)—Russia’s leadership must stop trying to silence the voices of civil society and opposition, Human Rights Watch said today. Ahead of this weekend’s Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg, Russian authorities interfered with an opposition ... More >>
G8 Must Press Sudan to Accept U.N. Force in Darfur
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 7:40 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – G8 leaders meeting in St. Petersburg on July 15-17 should firmly tell the Sudanese government that it must immediately accept the deployment of a United Nations force to protect civilians in Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
Afghanistan: Bombs and Threats Shut Down Schools
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 6:53 pm | Human Rights Watch
(London) – Escalating attacks by the Taliban and other armed groups on teachers, students and schools in Afghanistan are shutting down schools and depriving another generation of an education, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. ... More >>
Russia and NGOs: A photo-op for Putin
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 6:51 pm | Human Rights Watch
International Herald Tribune Carroll Bogert* Published: July 7, 2006 MOSCOW. Evening sunlight was slanting through the trees when Vladimir Putin appeared, striding solemnly through the dappled forest toward us. We were 12 representatives of nongovernmental ... More >>
Egypt: Journalists Still Risk Jail Under Press Law
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 6:49 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Cairo) – Egypt’s newly amended Press Law, which mandates prison sentences for insulting public officials in the media, still has numerous restrictions on press freedom that clearly violate international standards, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
Kazakhstan Must Not Send Back Uzbek Refugee
Saturday, 8 July 2006, 11:19 am | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The government of Kazakhstan must not return to Uzbekistan an Uzbek refugee currently in custody in the Kazakh city Almaty, Human Rights Watch said today. Gabdurafih Temirbaev, who fled religious persecution in Uzbekistan, would be at risk ... More >>
Grozny Diary: Anna Neistat
Saturday, 8 July 2006, 11:17 am | Human Rights Watch
Wherever you look in Grozny there are gaping shell-holes in the walls, crumbling balconies, empty window frames, and doors so pockmarked by bullets that you can see right through them. When I went back this spring, however, the central avenue in ... More >>
Guinea: Forces Respond to Protests with Killings
Thursday, 6 July 2006, 8:16 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Conakry) – In response to a nationwide strike protesting increases in the prices of rice and fuel, Guinea’s security forces committed murder, rape, assault and theft against demonstrators and bystanders alike, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
African Union: Senegal Agrees to Try Hissène Habré
Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 7:42 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Banjul) – Senegal’s decision to prosecute the exiled former dictator of Chad, in response to a request by the African Union, is a turning point in the long campaign to bring Hissène Habré to justice, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
Observations: Cruelty behind a joke
Sunday, 2 July 2006, 12:28 am | Human Rights Watch
Published in The New Statesman Monday 3rd July 2006 Too often, the nightmare in the central Asian state of Turkmenistan is treated as though it were comedy. The antics of the country's autocratic leader, Saparmurat Niyazov, are certainly bizarre: he ... More >>
US: Investigate Ex-Liberian President’s Son
Sunday, 2 July 2006, 12:26 am | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Charles “Chuckie” Taylor, Jr., son of the former Liberian president, is due to be arraigned next week in Miami on a U.S. passport violation, but the Justice Department should investigate him for his role in grave human rights abuses, Human ... More >>
U.N.: Mixed Start for New Human Rights Council
Sunday, 2 July 2006, 12:24 am | Human Rights Watch
(Geneva) – The first session of the new U.N. Human Rights Council was largely successful in laying a foundation for its future work, but there are signs that it may repeat some of its predecessor’s mistakes, Human Rights Watch said today. The inaugural ... More >>
Georgia: Bush Should Raise Human Rights Concerns
Sunday, 2 July 2006, 12:22 am | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – President George W. Bush should raise concerns about regression on human rights in Georgia at his meeting in Washington next week with President Mikheil Saakashvili, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
African Union Summit: Hissène Habré must be tried
Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 7:53 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Banjul) – The African Union Assembly must call on Senegal to fulfill its international legal commitments and ensure that the exiled former president of Chad, Hissène Habré, is promptly tried for the crimes of which he is accused, the Campaign Against Impunity ... More >>
Iran: Retry Ethnic Arabs Condemned to Death
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 7:31 pm | Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Iran’s judiciary should rescind the death sentences of at least 10 Iranians of Arab origin convicted of plotting against the state, and retry them before courts that meet international fair trial standards, Human Rights Watch said today. At least ... More >>
African Union: Send More Troops to Protect Darfur
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 7:28 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Banjul) – African leaders meeting at the African Union summit on July 1 and 2 must contribute more troops to protect civilians in Darfur and urge Sudan to consent to a U.N. force in Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the leaders. ... More >>
Europe: Govts Must End Renditions, Detentions
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 7:26 pm | Human Rights Watch
(Strasbourg) – European governments must take action against renditions and illegal detentions, Human Rights Watch said today. More >>
Mexico: Candidates Must Address Murders of Women
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 7:23 pm | Human Rights Watch
The candidates in Mexico's July 2 presidential elections should publicly pledge to prevent and punish the mutilation and murder of women in Mexico, Human Rights Watch, V-Day and 65 other civil society groups said in an open letter published today. More >>
Questions and Answers on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 3:54 pm | Human Rights Watch
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision soon in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Salim Ahmed Hamdan was picked up in Afghanistan in late 2001 and has been detained at Guantánamo Bay since 2002. He is challenging the lawfulness of the ... More >>
