Saudi Arabia: Stop Trial of Journalist
The head of the Saudi judiciary, Salih bin Humaid, should stop all criminal proceedings against Fahd al-Juhani, a Saudi journalist charged with defaming a local official. Al-Juhani had written about what he claime…Continue Reading
Mubarak’s trial in Egypt: We have come a long way
By Mohammed Lotfy, Amnesty International researcher for the Middle East and North Africa
Since the morning I had felt that this was going to be a historic day.
I couldn’t wait to watch live on TV the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubara…Continue Reading
Egypt: Mubarak Trial Opens
The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former interior Minister Habib al-Adly, and Adly’s six most senior security chiefs begins on August 3, 2011, in a specially designated courtroom in Cairo’s…Continue Reading
Solidarity with the Roma from Miercurea Ciuc seeking justice seven years on
By Fotis Filippou, Campaigner in the EU Team
It was the end of June, seven years ago, when approximately 100 Roma were forcibly evicted from a crumbling building in the centre of Miercurea Ciuc and were resettled by local authorities next to the cityContinue Reading
Rights group demands probe of Sri Lankan massacre
An international human rights group urged the United Nations on Wednesday to investigate the execution-style slaying of 17 workers for a French aid agency in Sri Lanka five years ago, after a government probe did not identify the killers.Continue Reading
Mirwaiz seeks human rights’ intervention in youth’s custodial death
Srinagar, Aug 3 (ANI): Reacting to the recent custodial killing of a youth, the chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has turned to the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to look into alleged human righ…Continue Reading
Sri Lanka: No Justice in Massacre of Aid Workers
The Sri Lankan government’s failure to bring to justice those responsible for the execution-style slaying of 17 aid workers five years ago highlights a broader lack of will to prosecute soldiers and police f…Continue Reading
Russia: Chechen Human Rights Lawyer Threatened
Threats by the police against a lawyer in Chechnya highlight the need for Russian authorities to end the harassment and intimidation of human rights defenders in the republic.
(Moscow, August 3, …Continue Reading
The Arc’s Statement on Budget Deal and Impact on People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The Arc, the nation’s largest and oldest human rights organization for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, released the following statement from its CEO Peter V. Berns on the passage of the budget and debt ceiling deal in Wash…Continue Reading
Human rights groups protest North Korea’s chairmanship of the U.N.’s Conference on Disarmament
A coalition of 28 human rights groups, led by the Geneva-based United Nations watchdog group U.N. Watch, is urging the world’s countries to protest North Korea’s chairmanship of the U.N.’s Conference on Disarmament.Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia’s Draft Counterterrorism Law a Setback for Human Rights
Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by the human rights implications of the draft Law of Sanctions for Crimes of Terrorism and Its Financing of 2011 (the “draft counterterrorism law”). The flaws of the draf…Continue Reading
UN rights chief warns Syrian regime ‘world is watching’
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay warned Syrian authorities that the “world is watching” their deadly crackdown against protesters and that attempts at imposing a news blackout were not working.Continue Reading
Rights group urges Saudi monarch to scrap terror law
Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi monarch on Tuesday to rescind a counterterrorism bill which it says will infringe on basic rights and lump peaceful opposition together with violence.Continue Reading
Rights group urges Saudi monarch to scrap terror law
Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi monarch on Tuesday to rescind a counterterrorism bill which it says will infringe on basic rights and lump peaceful opposition together with violence.Continue Reading
AFP in Basilan accused of torture anew
A day after Malacañang said it would go after human rights violators, a male youth has accused Basilan-based Armed Forces soldiers of torture anew. GMA News’ “24 Oras” reported that the alleged torture victim was arrested on June 23, 2011 in his B…Continue Reading