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July 28, 2016 News Release

Turkey: Media Shut Down, Journalists Detained

State of Emergency Crackdown Accelerates

Turkish journalist Nazli Ilicak, a well-known commentator and former parliamentarian, is escorted by a police officer and her relatives after being detained in Bodrum, Turkey on July 26, 2016.
July 28, 2016 News Release

Indonesia: Indicted General Unfit for Cabinet Post

Wiranto Emblematic of Impunity for Past Rights Abuses

Gen. Wiranto shakes hand with President Joko Widodo after the new cabinet ministers' swearing-in in Jakarta, Indonesia on July 27, 2016.
July 28, 2016 Commentary

US Dollars and Kenya’s ‘Disappeared’

Zeinab Bulley Hussein holding the national identity card of her son, Abdi Bare Mohamed. Community members stumbled on Abdi Bare’s dead body 18 kilometers from Mandera, in northeastern Kenya, three weeks after police officers arrested him outside the famil
July 28, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: EU Pushes Poland to Keep High Court Independent

European Commission Should Ensure All EU Members Uphold Rights

The sign at the entrance to Poland's constitutional court is pictured in Warsaw, Poland April 5, 2016.
July 28, 2016 Report

Senegal: New Steps to Protect Talibés, Street Children

Sustain Momentum with Investigations, Prosecutions

More than a dozen talibé boys between the ages of 6 and 14 were found shackled with iron bars in their Quranic school in Diourbel,Senegal
July 28, 2016 News Release

Russia/Syria: Widespread New Cluster Munition Use

Unexploded Submunitions Threaten Civilians

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July 28, 2016 News Release

Children Detained in War Zones

Thousands Held Without Charge, Tortured

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July 28, 2016 News Release

Morocco: 2 Jailed for Homosexuality

Parliament Should Decriminalize Same-Sex Acts

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July 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Pakistan’s Death Penalty Hypocrisy

Government Seeks Death Row Mercy From Indonesia

Activists from the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) carry placards during a demonstration in Islamabad, Pakistan on October 10, 2015.
July 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Afghanistan’s Worsening Civilian Casualty Horror

Growing Numbers of Children Killed or Injured in Conflict

Afghan boys look out from behind a damaged wall after a Taliban attack in Kabul, Afghanistan October 6, 2015.
July 27, 2016 Commentary

After Thousands Dead, UK Foreign Office Steps Back from its Denial of Yemen War Crimes

People stand around a crater caused by a Saudi-led air strike on the outskirts of Yemen's capital Sanaa, December 29, 2015.
July 27, 2016 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in advance of its review on Greece July 2016

July 27, 2016 Commentary

A Five-Point Human Rights Agenda for DFAT

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop speaks at a joint news conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China, on February 17, 2016.
July 27, 2016 News Release

Venezuela: Dissidents Allege Torture, Coerced Confessions

OAS Should Press Authorities to Drop Charges

Riot police officers detain a demonstrator during clashes with opposition supporters in a rally to demand a referendum to remove President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 18, 2016.
July 27, 2016 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Over 100 Executions Since January 1

Jordanian Faces Death Penalty for Drug Smuggling

Saudi authorities have executed more than 400 people since the beginning of 2014.

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