Europe/Central Asia

Turkmenistan: Environmental Advocate Freed

Human Rights Watch — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:43:11 -0800

(New York) – Turkmenistan’s release of the environmental activist Andrei Zatoka from prison on November 6, 2009, is a welcome development, but reports that the authorities effectively forced him to leave the country and may have confiscated his apartment, having already brought false charges against him, are troubling, Human Rights Watch said today.

Turkey: Bar Entry or Arrest Sudan President

Human Rights Watch — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:22:14 -0800

(New York) – Turkey should not allow President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, an accused war criminal, to attend a conference in Istanbul, and should arrest him if he sets foot in Turkey, Human Rights Watch said

Italy/US: Italian Court Rebukes CIA Rendition Practice

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:57:37 -0800

(Milan) - An Italian court's conviction of 23 agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for kidnapping is an historic repudiation of the CIA's crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The Milan court also found that two Italian officials illegally collaborated in CIA abuses.

Third Party Intervention in the European Court of Human Rights on the case of Kaos GL v Turkey

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:09:48 -0800

Human Rights Watch with two other organizations, in this intervention argue that trends in pluralistic democracies and in the historical evolution of “public morality” indicate that a proper assessment of “public morality”

Italy/US: Ruling Expected in Historic CIA Rendition Case

Human Rights Watch — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:27:16 -0800

(Milan) - The verdict expected Wednesday in a landmark case may present a historic legal challenge to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) rendition program, Human Rights Watch said today.

The trial in Milan of 26 Americans in absentia and seven Italians for the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian imam began in 2007.

No Refuge

Human Rights Watch — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:09:00 -0800

No Refuge

Migrants in Greece

Introduction

Secret Expulsions at the Border

Caught at Sea

No Refuge

Human Rights Watch — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:09:00 -0800

Turkmenistan: Free Environmental Activist

Human Rights Watch — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:54:34 -0700

(New York) - Turkmenistan should immediately release a well known environmental and civil society activist who was sentenced to five years in prison today on bogus charges, Human Rights Watch said. The trial of the activist, Andrei Zatoka, violated international fair trial standards, Human Rights Watch said.

Uzbekistan: a Textbook Example of Failed EU Policy

Veronika Szente Goldston — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:34:04 -0700

In a move that defies logic, EU foreign ministers this week scrapped the EU's one remaining sanction against Uzbekistan - a purely symbolic embargo on arms sales - despite Tashkent's defiance of the human-rights criteria the EU had set for its lifting.

Statement from Andrei Zatoka

Andrei Zatoka — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:39:53 -0700

I request that this letter be given to the General Prosecutor of Turkmenistan, the Embassy of the Russian Federation of Turkmenistan and the representative of the OSCE in the instance of my arrest, disappearance or unfortunate circumstance.