United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have expanded their crackdown on peaceful political activists with the recent arrests of two more members of a non-violent political association advocating greater adherence to Islamic precepts, Human Rights Watch said. The new arrests, of Saleh al-Dhufairi and Salem Sahooh, bring to 11 the total number of detained members of [...]
NEW YORK: Egypt’s military courts have investigated or tried at least 43 children over the past year, Human Rights Watch said today,including the pending trial of 13-year-old Ahmed Hamdy Abdel Aziz in connection with the Port Said football riots. Children prosecuted in military courts have not had access to lawyers, and often to their families, [...]
SANA’A: Yemen’s Prime Minister Salam Basendwa met with Sarah Leah Whitson, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division on Monday in the capital, Sana’a, discussing ways in which Yemen could improve its track record and tackle human rights issues. Ever since the beginning of the popular uprising last year, [...]
Beirut (dpa) – New York-based pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Addad of using civilians as human shields in their offensive against pro-democracy activists. Witnesses in the northern province of Idlib cited by HRW said they saw the army and pro-government militias force people to march [...]
Cairo (dpa) – A leading rights group said Tuesday that Libyan authorities and gunmen in the city of Misurata were preventing people they accuse of backing former leader Moamer Gaddafi from returning to neighboring villages they fled during last year’s civil war. “Tomina and Kararim are ghost towns because Misurata officials are blocking thousands of [...]
CAIRO: Less than three months after Saudi Arabia said it would permit women to participate in the London 2012 Olympic Games, it has reportedly reneged on their agreement, barring women from entering the Games. The move will also threaten the country’s overall participation in the Olympics, with the International Olympic Committee saying that all countries [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that Libya’s former spy chief Abuzaid Dorda needed medical care for injuries sustained in custody. The New York-based watchdog urged the Libyan government to investigate the cause of Dorda’s injuries. Dorda, 67, was detained in October 2011 by militiamen in Tripoli and was later transferred [...]
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 [...]
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