(Johannesburg) – A committee set up by the Nigerian government to develop an amnesty framework for members of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram should exclude serious crimes that violate international human rights law, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the committee made public today.
UPDATE: On July 2, King Abdullah extended the deadline for migrant workers in the kingdom to regularize their residency and employment status to November 4.
(Moscow) – Russian authorities should stop harassing a leading human rights group and investigate the legality of a raid on its Moscow office on June 21-22, 2013.
Abd al Hadi al Iraqi, a 51- or 52-year-old Iraqi citizen. He was taken into custody in late 2006, spent some time the custody of the Central Intelligence Agency and was ultimately transferred to Guantanamo in April of 2007. He has been described as one of 16 high-valued detainees by US government officials.
(Washington, DC) – United States Senate Judiciary Committee members considering James Comey for the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should question him on his apparent approval of legal memos authorizing torture, Human Rights Watch and six other human rights and civil liberties groups said in a
In February last year, guards at the Pontianak Immigration Detention Center in West Kalimantan beat Taqi Naroye, an Afghan asylum-seeker, so badly that he died.
