UN’s Pillay: Yemen peace-deal amnesty may be unlawful
GENEVA (Reuters) – Granting amnesty to perpetrators of war crimes and human rights abuses under Yemen’s presidential power transition deal would be against international law, the United Nations human rights chief said on Friday, undermining the peace a…Continue Reading
Lawyer: Bahrain rights activist beaten by police
A lawyer for a prominent human rights activist in Bahrain says his client has been hospitalized after a beating by police at an anti-government protest.Continue Reading
Lawyer: Bahrain rights activist beaten by police
A lawyer for a prominent human rights activist in Bahrain says his client has been hospitalized after a beating by police at an anti-government protest.Continue Reading
Rights groups oppose ex-Libyan PM extradition
A statement signed by 15 Tunisian and international human rights groups has opposed the plan to extradite Libya’s former prime minister back to Tripoli.Continue Reading
Affaire Habré : Le président sénégalais Wade déclare que l’ancien dictateur tchadien sera « très probablement renvoyé en Belgique »
La déclaration du président sénégalais Abdoulaye Wade que « très probablement Hissène Habré va être renvoyé en Belgique » pour r&…Continue Reading
Syria: Comply With Agreement
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The Syrian government should comply with all the terms of its agreement with the Arab League, Human Rights Watch said today ahead of a January 8, 2012 meeting of the Arab League to discu…Continue Reading
International human rights experts call for key changes to the Detainee Inquiry as Abdul Hakim Belhadj joins list of survivors refusing to participate
The government’s planned ‘Detainee Inquiry’ faces further harsh criticism today as seventeen distinguished international human rights experts publish an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron stating th…Continue Reading
Hungary: Reverse Interference with Courts, Media
The Hungarian government’s interference with judicial independence and media freedom violates its international obligations and puts human rights at risk.
(London) – The Hungarian government&r…Continue Reading
UN criticizes sharp rise in Saudi executions
The U.N.’s human rights office has criticized a sharp rise in executions carried out by Saudi Arabia in 2011.Continue Reading
UN alarmed at jump in Saudi executions
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday said it was alarmed at the almost threefold increase in the use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia last year.Continue Reading
Israeli court upholds contentious ‘Naqba’ law
Israeli human rights groups said Thursday that the country’s Supreme Court had rejected their petition to overturn a contentious law penalising Arab mourning of the Jewish state’s founding.Continue Reading
NZ condemns Fiji rights abuses
New Zealand has added its voice to mounting international condemnation of human rights abuses in Fiji since last December’s coup.Continue Reading
UN diplomat wants Libya NATO investigation
The incoming UN Security Council president has called for an investigation into human rights abuses committed during NATO’s bombing of Libya.Continue Reading
Vietnam: Free Peaceful Activist
Vietnamese authorities should immediately release the activist Bui Thi Minh Hang and stop harassing her for protesting peacefully.
(New York) – Vietnamese authorities should immediately rel…Continue Reading
UN diplomat wants Libya NATO investigation
The incoming U.N. Security Council president called Wednesday for an investigation into human rights abuses committed during NATO’s bombing campaign to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.Continue Reading