Syria urged to respect right to protest
Human Rights Watch on Friday called for the Syrian authorities to “respect” the right of its people to protest, amid online calls for large demonstrations.Continue Reading
Syria: Free Elderly Activist Who Called for Protests
(New York) – Syrian authorities should immediately free Ghassan al-Najjar, leader of a small group called the Islamic Democratic Current, Human Rights Watch said today. Security services arrested him at his home on the morning of February 4, 2011, and …Continue Reading
What Mubarak Must Do Before He Resigns
Mr. Baghat has worked in coordination with Human Rights Watch and was a recipient of HRW’s 2010 Human Rights Defenders Award. He is not an HRW employee.
Published in the Washington Post
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UN rights chief to visit Israel, Palestinian territories
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories, including Gaza, starting on Sunday where she will meet leaders from both sides, her office announced.Continue Reading
Egypt: Release Detained Activists, Journalists
(London) – The Egyptian authorities should immediately reveal the whereabouts of Egyptian and international human rights activists, lawyers, and journalists arrested during a raid on the Hisham Mubarak Law Center in Cairo on the afternoon of February 3…Continue Reading
Tunisia: Prison Visit Ends 20-Year Ban
(Tunis) – Tunisia’s interim government should ease overcrowding and reverse a policy imposed more than 15 years ago to deny inmates facing the death penalty any contact with their families, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch made the req…Continue Reading
UN rights chief to visit Israel, Palestinian areas
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories, including Gaza, starting on Sunday where she will meet leaders from both sides, her office announced.Continue Reading
Pakistan’s deadly blasphemy-seeking vigilantes
The blasphemy laws that led to the murder of Salmaan Taseer are as serious a threat as the Taliban
by Mustafa Qadri, Amnesty International’s Pakistan researcher. (First published in the Guardian, Thursday 3 February 2011)
The murder of Punjab…Continue Reading
Egypt set for Tunisia-style change: UN rights chief
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Friday that Egypt would experience the kind of change that has swept Tunisia in the wake of a popular revolt that toppled that country’s president last month.Continue Reading
La impotencia de no saber
Equipo de Amnistía Internacional en El Cairo
Estábamos entrevistando a un hombre que ha perdido a su hijo de 16 años en las recientes protestas cuando nos ha llegado la noticia de la detención de nuestros colegas.
Se encontraban en la sede de una …Continue Reading
Top UN human rights official denounces attacks, backs call for special session on Egypt
GENEVA – The U.N.’s top human rights official has denounced attacks on activists and journalists and backs the idea of a special session of the U.N.’s Human Rights Council to address the violence in Egypt.Continue Reading
Iraq’s secret torture prison
Human Rights Watch says Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has not fulfilled his promise to stop abuses against terrorism suspects, a charge his government denies. A guide to the accusationsContinue Reading
European Human Rights court rulings making UK ‘safe heaven’ for foreign terrorists’
London, Feb 4 (ANI): Human Rights rulings have made Britain a ‘safe haven’ for foreign terrorists, the independent reviewer of anti-terror laws has warned.Continue Reading
Dozens of journalists, human-rights activists arrested, beaten as chaos in Egypt intensifies
CAIRO – Menacing gangs backing President Hosni Mubarak attacked journalists and human rights activists Thursday in an ugly turn in Egypt’s crisis as government opponents pushed supporters out of Cairo’s main square in a second day of street battles. Or…Continue Reading
Palestinian Authority: End Violence Against Egypt Demonstrators
(Ramallah) – The Palestinian Authority should end police violence against peaceful demonstrators, the latest instance being an attack against demonstrators at an evening rally on February 2, 2011, in Ramallah in support of the Egypt protests, Human Rig…Continue Reading