• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
    Jun 7, 2012

    Filmmaker Alison Klayman captures artist Ai Weiwei's forthright and unequivocal stance against China's oppression in Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. You can catch the documentary at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York. Amy Costello reports.

  • Azerbaijan: Media Freedoms in Grave Danger
    May 2, 2012
    Journalists and free-speech advocates voice their alarm at the Azerbaijan government's crackdown in free expression and the European Broadcasting Union's reluctance to speak out publicly against it ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku.
  • Burma Releases Political Prisoners
    Jan 20, 2012
    Burma's government has finally heeded international calls to release political prisoners. Photographer James Mackay was at the Rangoon airport on January 13 to document the homecoming of some of the country's most prominent activists. Human Rights Watch's Elaine Pearson reports.
  • Voices from Tahrir II: Building a Nation
    Jan 20, 2012

    Egypt's revolutionaries remember the day they brought Mubarak down and talk about their fears and hopes for their country's future.

  • Voices from Tahrir I: Bread, Freedom and Dignity
    Jan 20, 2012

    In the first half of the show, host Heba Morayef brings listeners back to the early days of demonstrations in Tahrir Square. Activists who were there tell how and when they realized they were participating in a revolution that would bring down a president.

  • Egypt: Protests, Violence in Tahrir
    Nov 22, 2011

    Hear Human Rights Watch's Heba Morayef report from Tahrir Square, where violence has erupted as protesters oppose Egypt's military rule.

  • Iraq: Journalists Under Threat
    Sep 16, 2011

    A popular Iraqi radio journalist was gunned down in his home in Baghdad. A newspaper editor, Asos Hardi, was also attacked in Iraq's Kurdish region. Hardi and HRW's Samer Muscati talk about increasing risks to journalists and press freedom in Iraq.

  • Egypt's Transformers
    Jul 26, 2011
  • Hijab Bans and Forced Veiling
    May 6, 2011

    From France's ban on the niqab -- a face covering worn by some Muslim women -- to a call for all Chechen women to wear headscarves, an increasing number of European states are trying to dictate the way women dress. With HRW's Veronika Szente Goldston and Tanya Lokshina.

  • Crackdown in Bahrain
    Apr 25, 2011

    Bahrain's protests were shut down by authorities last month; since then there's been a brutal crackdown on dissent. HRW's Faraz Sanei has more.