• Bahrain: Human Rights Body Should Target Repression
    May 20, 2012

    United Nations member states should scrutinize Bahrain’s deplorable human rights record during the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council on May 21, 2012. The international community should push Bahrain to adopt specific measures to ensure free expression and peaceful assembly, end torture, free political prisoners, and establish credible accountability mechanisms for continuing abuses.

  • “Beat Him, Take Everything Away” Abuses by China’s Chengguan Para-Police - Report Press Conference
    May 16, 2012
    On Wednesday, May 23 2012, Human Rights Watch (HRW) will launch its first China report of 2012: “Beat Him, Take Everything Away” Abuses by China’s Chengguan Para-Police at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club.
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Police Brutality

  • Bahrain: Human Rights Body Should Target Repression
    May 20, 2012

    United Nations member states should scrutinize Bahrain’s deplorable human rights record during the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council on May 21, 2012. The international community should push Bahrain to adopt specific measures to ensure free expression and peaceful assembly, end torture, free political prisoners, and establish credible accountability mechanisms for continuing abuses.

  • “Beat Him, Take Everything Away” Abuses by China’s Chengguan Para-Police - Report Press Conference
    May 16, 2012
    On Wednesday, May 23 2012, Human Rights Watch (HRW) will launch its first China report of 2012: “Beat Him, Take Everything Away” Abuses by China’s Chengguan Para-Police at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club.
  • Iraq: Mass Arrests, Incommunicado Detentions
    May 15, 2012

    Iraq’s government has been carrying out mass arrests and unlawfully detaining people in the notorious Camp Honor prison facility in Baghdad’s Green Zone, based on numerous interviews with victims, witnesses, family members, and government officials. The government had claimed a year ago that it had closed the prison, where Human Rights Watch had documented rampant torture.

  • Morocco/Western Sahara: No Action on Police Beating of Rights Worker
    May 15, 2012
    The failure of Moroccan authorities to follow through on investigating the beating by police of a Human Rights Watch research assistant is a case study of impunity for police violence.
  • Bahrain: Police Brutality, Despite Reform Pledges
    Apr 29, 2012
    Bahrain’s police are beating and torturing detainees, including minors, despite public commitments to end torture and police impunity.
  • Letter to Permanent Representatives of HRC Member States on the Upcoming UPR Session on Bahrain
    Apr 24, 2012
    Bahrain’s second UPR review also takes place following an extensive independent investigation into alleged serious human rights violations by the government in suppressing large anti-government protests that began in mid-February 2011. The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), comprising a team of five renowned international jurists, concluded, in its 489-page report released in late November, that a lack of accountability had led to what the Commissioners called a “culture of impunity” for widespread and systematic violations of international human rights law as well as Bahraini law.
  • Russia: A Move to Investigate Police Abuses
    Apr 19, 2012
    The creation of a special unit to investigate crimes by law enforcement officials is an important step toward ending impunity and eliminating torture by law enforcement and security agencies in Russia.
  • Statement at the Human Rights Council on the human rights situation in Afghanistan
    Mar 21, 2012

    The key issues in Afghanistan emphasized in this statement are the following: declining international aid and political engagement; the need for an inclusive decision-making process; the need for accountable security forces; violence against women and "moral crimes"

  • Statement at the Human Rights Council on the adoption of the Universal Periodic Review report of Uganda
    Mar 16, 2012

    The government should urgently take concrete action to address concerns over ongoing impunity and poor legislative proposals. Police and prosecutors should actively investigate the killings of at least 50 people during demonstrations in September 2009 and April 2011.

  • Letter to Marrakesh Crown Prosecutor Regarding the Case of Police Officer Mohamed Kherbouche
    Mar 1, 2012
    July 25 will mark the tenth anniversary of the untimely death of Mr. Aït Si Rihal. During much of the past ten years, the man on trial for beating him fatally continued to report to work as a policeman and earn his salary. Then, after exhausting his appeals one year ago, he fled rather than surrender to serve his sentence, and has not been found since.
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