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April 20, 2019 Report

Egypt: Constitutional Amendments Entrench Repression

Referendum Set in Grossly Unfree, Rights-Abusive Environment

People walk past a banner supporting proposed amendments to the Egyptian constitution with a poster of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi  in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, April 16, 2019. © 2019 AP Images/Amr Nabil
April 19, 2019 Commentary

With the Highest Rate of Cervical Cancer Deaths in the US, Black Women in Alabama Are Losing Out on Health Care

Ms. Frances Ford, executive director of Sowing Seeds of Hope, in her home in August 2018, holding a picture of her mother, who died from cervical cancer after being diagnosed in 1980.
April 19, 2019 Commentary

Lessons from History on US Border Policy

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April 19, 2019 News Release

Algeria: Police Renew Crackdown on Mass Protests

Uphold Right to Peaceful Assembly

Protesters confront police officers during a demonstration against the country's leadership, in Algiers, Friday, April 12, 2019.
April 19, 2019 Report

DR Congo: Warlord’s Conviction Reveals Trial Flaws

Former Congolese Soldier Guilty of Rape, Use of Child Soldiers

Marcel Habarugira (center) poses for a photograph in Ngululu, 80 kilometers northwest of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2012.
April 18, 2019 News Release

Nepal: End Attacks on Free Expression

Escalating Crackdown on Journalists, Social Media

Journalists stage a protest against new laws that threaten to curb media freedoms, Kathmandu, Nepal, September 19, 2018.
April 18, 2019 Commentary

Israel Wants to Deport Me for My Human Rights Work

A dossier compiled by Israel’s Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy Ministry on the activities of Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine Director, which served as the basis for the government’s May 7, 2018 decision to revoke his work vis
April 18, 2019 Dispatches

Without Justice in the Central African Republic, ‘Everything Else is Wrecked’

Special Criminal Court Critical to Accountability for Past Crimes

April 18, 2019 News Release

Iran: Release Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activists

Prison Sentences on Vague Morality Charges

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April 18, 2019 News Release

Sudan: Heed Calls for Justice

Al-Bashir, Other Rights Abusers Should be Held to Account

Omar al-Bashir greets his supporters at a rally in Khartoum, Sudan, on January 9, 2019. He was ousted on April 11.
April 18, 2019 News Release

Iraq: Torture Persists in Mosul Jail

No Apparent Action Months After Allegations

In its August 2018 report on Faisaliya detention facility, Human Rights Watch interviewed Mahmoud who said he was hung in the “bazoona” position at least six times while in detention, for hours. He said that at least four of those times, he lost conscious
April 17, 2019 News Release

Myanmar: Satire is Not a Crime

Drop Charges Against Peaceful Critics

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and first lady Cho Cho, left, smile as they take part in the first day of Myanmar traditional water festival, also known as Myanmar New Year, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar Saturday, April 13, 2019.
April 17, 2019 Statement

Quote by Maria Laura Canineu, director of the Brazil office at Human Rights Watch

April 17, 2019 Statement

Statement by Human Rights Watch about the Decision to Close a Military Investigation into Multiple Killings in Rio de Janeiro in November 2017

Armed Forces members patrol during an operation against the organized crime in Lins slum complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 5, 2017.
April 17, 2019 Commentary

If Brunei’s New Stoning Law is Enforced, Sanction the Sultan

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah delivers a speech during the launch of Commemorative Notes of the 50th Anniversary of the Currency Interchangeability Agreement between Singapore and Brunei at the Istana Wednesday, July 5, 2017, in Singapore.

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