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April 13, 2019 News Release

Brazil: Jail Term for Comedian Harms Free Speech

Brazil Should Repeal Criminal Defamation Law

Danilo Gentili
April 12, 2019 News Release

Nepal: Reform Transitional Justice Law

Fix Commissions’ Mandate Before Naming Members

Activists hold an event in memory of people who were disappeared during Nepal’s decade-long civil war, Kathmandu, August 30, 2017.
April 12, 2019 News Release

ICC: Judges Reject Afghanistan Investigation

Victims Denied Path to Justice; Decision Benefits Obstructionist States

The Permanent Premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
April 12, 2019 Commentary

The Assange prosecution threatens modern journalism

The only thing standing between an Assange prosecution and a major threat to global media freedom is Britain

April 12, 2019 Dispatches

Germany Should Press Kyrgyzstan President on Rights

Merkel should Raise Rights Concerns, Call for Activist’s Release

Kyrgyz President-elect Sooronbai Jeenbekov (front) attends an inauguration ceremony at the Ala-Archa state residence outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan November 24, 2017.
April 12, 2019 Statement

Public Comment Session: Immigration Detention Centers and Treatment of Immigrants

Testimony of Jasmine Tyler Before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, April 12, 2019

Two female detainees sleep in a holding cell at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Arizona, in this June 18, 2014 file photo.
April 12, 2019 Letter

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Tonga

81st session, 2019

April 12, 2019 Commentary

UK, France Should Join German Saudi Arms Embargo

People are seen near a bus destroyed by an airstrike that killed dozens of children, in a photograph taken on August 12, 2018 in Saada, Yemen.
April 12, 2019 Commentary

UK: A Century After the Amritsar Massacre, London Still Kicks Its Atrocities Under the Rug

April 12, 2019 Dispatches

Burundi: Expelled for Doodles

School Places Politics Above Right to Education

Le président Pierre Nkurunziza, peu après sa prestation de serment pour un troisième mandat en tant que chef d’État du Burundi. Bujumbura, Burundi, 20 août 2015.
April 12, 2019 News Release

Morocco: Jailed Journalist Stuck in Abusive Solitary

Denied Contact With Inmates, Guards, for More Than a Year

Taoufik Bouachrine (Via Facebook)
April 12, 2019 News Release

Lebanon: Refer Torture Case to Civilian Court

Itani Case Shouldn’t Be Heard by Military Courts

Zaid Itani
April 12, 2019 News Release

UAE: Free Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor

Mounting Concerns Over His Deteriorating Health

Human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor smiles while speaking to Associated Press journalists in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016.
April 11, 2019 News Release

US: Assange's Possible Extradition Threatens Journalism

‘Hacking’ Charges Could Expand to Standard Investigative Reporting Practices

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Britain, May 19, 2017.
April 11, 2019 Dispatches

Connecticut poised to provide free calls to prisoners

Move would offer a lifeline to people behind bars

An inmate makes a phone call from his cell at the Orange County jail in Santa Ana, California, May 24, 2011.

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