Diplomatic Assurances

UK: Ethiopian ‘Assurances’ No Guarantee Against Torture

Human Rights Watch — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:00:25 -0700

(London) - The UK government should not rely on unreliable "diplomatic assurances" against torture to deport national security suspects to Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the UK government.

Letter to British Foreign Secretary Miliband on Diplomatic Assurances with Ethiopia

Human Rights Watch — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:00:15 -0700

Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Dear Foreign Secretary,

Russia: Extradited Chechen Terrorism Suspect Freed

Human Rights Watch — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:05:39 -0700

Murat Gasayev, an ethnic Chechen accused of participation in an attack on government buildings in Ingushetia in June 2004, was released by Russian authorities without charge on August 28, 2009, after 10 months in pretrial detention. Spain extradited Gasayev to Russia in December 2008.

Human Rights Watch UPR Submission on Italy

Human Rights Watch — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:46:41 -0700

Summary

Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown regarding Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:46:19 -0700

Dear Prime Minister,

Italy: Expulsion of Tunisian Violates European Human Rights Convention

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:49:25 -0700

(New York) - Italy's expulsion of a Tunisian terrorism suspect to a country where he is at real risk of torture is the latest example of how it flouts the absolute ban on such returns, Human Rights Watch said today.

Letter to the German Government Regarding Diplomatic Assurances

Human Rights Watch — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:28:24 -0700

Interior Minister Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble

Interior Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany

Alt-Moabit 101D

10559 Berlin

Dear Minister Schäuble,

US: At Least One ‘Recidivist’ Tortured to Confess to Terrorism

Human Rights Watch — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:40:01 -0700

(New York) - The US Defense Department's claim that a former Guantanamo detainee is a "recidivist" to terrorism appears to be based on a confession obtained by Russian authorities through torture, Human Rights Watch said today.

Obama's Report Card -- Rights Watch #6

Human Rights Watch — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:58:47 -0700

The CIA torture memos and President Barak Obama's counterterrorism reforms in his first 100 days. With HRW's Stacy Sullivan.

US: Obama’s 100-Day Record on Counterterrorism Reform

Human Rights Watch — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:33:40 -0700

(Washington, DC) - In his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama has made significant progress in reforming the Bush administration's abusive counterterrorism policies, but his administration has also made a few serious missteps, Human Rights Watch said in a background paper released today.