Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Ukraine: Banned Landmines Harm Civilians
Click to expand Image Remnants of KPFM-1S-SK cassettes manufactured in 1988 that Human Rights Watch researchers found in Izium in October 2022. These cassettes are used for the delivery of PFM mines by the 9M27K3 Uragan mine-laying rocket. The cassette opens in flight using a small explosive charge to separate it from the rocket motor section of...
Morocco: 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 unfair trial, Human Rights Watch said today. Moroccan authorities detained Hassan Al Rabea at the Marrakesh Airport on January 14, 2023, as he was...
Russia 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 Anniversary Conference in May 2021. © 2021 Andrew Rushailo-Arno Yesterday, Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office designated the Andrei...
Central Asia: Violent Response to Protests Fuels Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Riot police block demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 5, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – Authorities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan used unjustified lethal force to respond to protests in 2022 and have utterly failed to ensure accountability for a...
Belarus: Zone of Repression
Click to expand Image Protesters display broken paper prison bars representing the Belarusian population in prisons and the lack of freedom in Belarus, in Krakow, Poland on August 9, 2022. © 2022 Artur Widak/NurPhoto via AP (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – Belarusian authorities further escalated their crackdown on dissenting voices and doubled down...
Russia: War’s Supersized Repression
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a man holding a poster that reads “no war” during an unsanctioned protest on March,13,2022 at Manezhnaya Square in front of the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia. © 2022 Contributor/Getty Images (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – The Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine marked the start of a...
Brazil: Ensure Justice for Attack on Democratic Institutions
Click to expand Image The word “democracy” on a pedestrian bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, October 26, 2022. © AP Photo/Matias Delacroix 2022 (São Paulo) – Brazilian authorities should thoroughly investigate all those who have incited, financed, or committed acts of violence in an attempt to negate election results, Human Rights Watch said today...
EU: Ukraine Response Shows Principled Approach Possible
Click to expand Image Ukrainian refugees at a Paris train station, Paris, France on April 30, 2022. © 2022 Pierrick Villette/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (Brussels) – The European Union and most of its member states espoused a commitment to human rights and democratic values in 2022, and in some instances, lived up to those values, Human...
Human Rights Watch Issues Damning Verdict for UK
Click to expand Image Volunteers sort food into food parcels at the Rumney Forum community charity on November 8, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. © 2022 Matthew Horwood/Getty Images (London) – The United Kingdom government repeatedly sought to damage and undermine human rights protections in 2022, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023....
Turkey: Tightened Control in Election Run-Up
Click to expand Image Opposition members of parliament hold up placards protesting the Erdoğan government’s proposed law to criminalize disinformation and tighten control over social media as an attempt to increase censorship in the run up to 2023 elections; October 11, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici (Istanbul) – Turkey’s...
