Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Birthday Behind Bars in Russia
Click to expand Image The co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Memorial Human Rights Centre Oleg Orlov attends a court session for a new trial on charges of repeatedly discrediting the Russian military, Moscow, Russia, February 26, 2024. © 2024 Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo Today, leading Russian human rights defender Oleg Orlov turned...
Russia: Shameful Pride in Torture of Terrorism Suspects
Click to expand Image Federal Security Service officials bring Dalderjon Mirzoev, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall’s massacre, to the Basmanny District Court in Moscow on March 24, 2024. © 2024 Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images (Berlin, March 29, 2024) – Russian authorities tortured, recorded, and shared recordings of the torture, of...
UN Report on Israeli Killing of Journalist in Lebanon
Click to expand Image Reuters’ journalist Issam Abdallah films an interview amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, April 17, 2022. © 2022 Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters (New York) – The United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) should release the findings of its investigation into two Israeli strikes on a group...
Drone Attack Collapses Odesa Residential Building
Click to expand Image An apartment building heavily damaged during a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine March 2, 2024. © 2024 Stringer/Reuters On March 2, Andriy Sidak raced to his sister’s apartment building fearing the worst. Earlier, a Russian drone had struck the building in the north part of Odesa. What he found was rubble and...
Confronting the Rising Civilian Toll from Explosive Weapons
Click to expand Image The aftermath of an explosion of an intercepted Russian missile on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 13, 2023. © 2023 Valentyna Polishchuck/Getty Images In late February, I joined youth from 14 countries for a four-day seminar on the rising civilian toll caused by bombing and shelling with explosive weapons...
Russia: Sham Trial of Human Rights Leader Draws to a Close
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov reading Franz Kafka’s The Trial in a Moscow courtroom during his trial, February 2024. © 2024 Ekaterina Yanshina, for Memorial (Moscow) – Oleg Orlov, a leading Russian human rights defender, has begun reading his closing statement following what was clearly a sham trial, Human Rights Watch said today. Orlov,...
Russia: Sham Trial of Human Rights Leader Draws to a Close
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov reading Franz Kafka’s The Trial in a Moscow courtroom during his trial, February 2024. © 2024 Ekaterina Yanshina, for Memorial (Moscow, February 26, 2024) –Oleg Orlov, a leading Russian human rights defender, has begun reading his closing statement following what was clearly a sham trial, Human Rights Watch...
Russia: Navalny Dies in Prison
Click to expand Image Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia take part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia on March 29, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin (Berlin, February 16, 2024) – The Kremlin bears responsibility for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in...
Russia: First Convictions Under LGBT ‘Extremist’ Ruling
Click to expand Image Oleg Nefedov, a judge of Russia’s Supreme Court, reads a decision on a ministry of justice’s request to brand the “international LGBT movement” an extremist organisation and ban its activity, in Moscow on November 30, 2023. © 2023 NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images Russian courts have issued the...
UN’s Financial Troubles Jeopardize Critical Human Rights Work
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019 Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP A cash crunch and hiring freeze at the United Nations threaten to hinder UN human rights investigations in places like...
