India’s Blocking of BBC Documentary Reflects Broader Crackdown
Click to expand Image Victims of the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat state, which left more than 1,000 dead, gather for a protest on the anniversary of the violence in Ahmedabad, India, February 28,...
View ArticleIn Belarus, Jailed for Protecting Loved Ones
Click to expand Image Daria Losik with her four-year old daughter. © 2021 Nasha Niva Last week, a court in Brest, Belarus sentenced Daria Losik to two years in prison for an interview she gave about...
View ArticleMyanmar: Japan’s Construction Aid Benefits Junta
Click to expand Image Members of the Myanmar military stand atop trucks loaded with missiles during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 77th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2022. ©...
View ArticleGuatemala: Threats to Free, Fair Elections
Click to expand Image Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal opened nominations for the 2023 general elections in Guatemala City, Guatemala, January 20, 2023. © 2023 Josue Decavele/Anadolu Agency via...
View ArticleRussia Designates Another Rights Organization as ‘Undesirable’
Click to expand Image Tanya Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch, with Sergey Lukashevsky, director of Moscow's Sakharov Center, at the Andrei Sakharov...
View ArticleBiden's Empty Call to Reevaluate US-Saudi Relationship
Click to expand Image US President Joe Biden, center left, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, center, at a hotel in Saudi Arabia’s city of Jeddah, July 16, 2022. © 2022 Mandel Ngan/AP Photo...
View ArticleEswatini: Activist, Rights Lawyer Brutally Killed
Click to expand Image Human Rights Lawyer and activist Thulani Maseko pictured giving an interview to Agence France-Presse on September 22, 2018, in Lobamba, eSwatini. Maseko was killed on January 21,...
View ArticleLebanon: Victims’ Families Despair as Blast Suspects Freed
Click to expand Image Graffiti at the damaged port area in the aftermath of a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon August 11, 2020. © 2020 Hannah McKay/Reuters (Beirut) – Lebanon’s general prosecutor...
View ArticleBrazil: Restore Rule of Law in the Amazon
Click to expand Image Trucks carrying illegally harvested logs exit the Terra Nossa settlement, September 30, 2019. © 2019 Fernando Martinho/Repórter Brasil (São Paulo) – Brazil’s President Luiz...
View ArticleChina: Free ‘White Paper’ Protesters
Click to expand Image Protesters hold up white pieces of paper during a demonstration in Beijing against China’s “zero Covid-19" measures, November 27, 2022. © 2022 Kevin Frayer/Getty Images (New...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Independent Media Outlet
Click to expand Image Protesters flash the light of their mobile phones during a rally for freedom of speech and freedom for political prisoners in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 25, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticlePhilippines: Officials ‘Red-Tagging’ Indigenous Leaders, Activists
Click to expand Image Family and members of the Indigenous Dumagat tribe carry the coffins of Puroy and Randy Dela Cruz to be buried in Rizal province, Philippines, March 17, 2021. The two were among...
View ArticleGreece: Migrant Rights Defenders Face Charges
Click to expand Image Left: Panayote Dimitras. Right: Tommy Olsen. © 2019 EIN Secretariat – Agnes Ciccarone © 2015 Adam Rosser (Athens, January 26, 2023) – Greek authorities have brought unfounded...
View ArticleMorocco: Saudi Man at Risk of Forced Return
Click to expand Image Hassan Al Rabea. © Private (Beirut) – Moroccan authorities may extradite a Saudi citizen to Saudi Arabia, where he is at serious risk of arbitrary detention, torture, and an...
View ArticleSpain Debates Dangerous Sex Work Law
Click to expand Image Sex workers protest in the Puerta del Sol, Madrid, against the the proposed criminalization of sex work, October 22, 2021. © 2021 Cecilia Montagut Spanish lawmakers should reject...
View ArticleEl Salvador: Leaked Database Points to Large-Scale Abuses
Click to expand Image People arrested by police wait in zip tie handcuffs in the back of a truck to be transferred to a prison at the Police Delegation of San Bartolo in Soyapango, El Salvador,...
View ArticleIndian Government App Exposed Children’s Personal Data
Click to expand Image Children studies online using borrowed mobile phones in Mumbai, India, during school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. October 16, 2020. © 2020 Ashish Vaishnav/Sipa via AP...
View ArticleCameroon: Prominent Investigative Journalist Killed
Click to expand Image Mourners place candles in a room of Radio Amplitude FM where a portrait of journalist Martinez Zogo has been placed to pay tribute to him in Elig Essono district in Yaounde,...
View ArticleDeaths Underscore Inhumanity of Canada’s Immigration Detention
Click to expand Image A protestor holds a sign outside a provincial jail in Toronto during a rally against immigration detention, 2022. © 2022 Samer Muscati/HRW On January 28, 2022, Bryan Arthur...
View ArticleZimbabwe: A Move to Curb Freedom of Association as Election Nears
Click to expand Image Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured at a ZANU PF congress in Harare on, October 28, 2022. (AP Photo/STR). © (Johannesburg) – Zimbabwe should reregister hundreds of civil society groups...
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