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March 8, 2017 News Release

Algeria: Don’t Prosecute a Writer for Insulting Islam

Summoned for Interrogation over a Novel

Algerian novelist Anouar Rahmani.
March 7, 2017 News Release

Georgia: Media Freedom at Risk

Possible Government Interference with Judiciary, Media

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March 7, 2017 News Release

Thailand: Defamation Cases Dropped Against Activists

Permit Unhampered Rights Monitoring in South

Somchai Homlaor, Pornpen Khongkachonkie, and Anchana Heemmina.
March 7, 2017 News Release

Hungary: Draft Law Tramples Asylum Seekers’ Rights

EU Should Seek To Halt Plan to Hold Asylum Seekers in Transit Zones

A refugee washes clothes on the Hungary-Serbia border, on the Serbian side of a transit zone set up by Hungarian authorities to filter refugees at Roszke, Hungary, September 2, 2016.
March 6, 2017 News Release

China: New Rules for Students with Disabilities Inadequate

Modest Reforms Undercut by Provisions Allowing Discrimination

A blind girl reads Braille text in her class at the Shanghai School for the Blind in Shanghai.
March 6, 2017 News Release

North Korea: Crimes Against Humanity Demand Justice

ICNK Backs Recommendations of New UN Reports

Kim Jong-Un watches a performance in Pyongyang, North Korea, on February 23, 2017.
March 6, 2017 News Release

US: Trump's New Refugee Order Renews Old Harms

Changes Can’t Mask Anti-Muslim Intent

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March 6, 2017 News Release

Bahrain: Activist’s Family Targeted

Retribution Appears Linked to Human Rights Work

Hajar Mansoor Hasan (second from right), apparently targeted by authorities in retribution for the human rights work of her son-in-law, Sayed al-Wadaei. Also pictured are Hasan’s children, aged 13 and 11, and mother, 90.
March 6, 2017 News Release

Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Sixteen Films that Connect Shifting Attitudes to Human Rights

Still from I Am Not Your Negro.
March 5, 2017 News Release

Jordan: Executions Won’t End Terror Attacks, Murder

Authorities Should Renew Moratorium on Death Penalty

March 3, 2017 News Release

Sri Lanka: UN Official Calls Progress ‘Worryingly Slow’

Human Rights Council Should Monitor Undertakings, Justice Efforts

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein speaks during a news conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka on February 9, 2016.
March 2, 2017 News Release

US: Immigration Memos Will Wreak Havoc on Rights

New Analysis Assesses Impact

DB US immigration
March 2, 2017 News Release

US: Curb Executive Branch Surveillance Powers

Free Expression, Privacy, Fair Trial Rights at Stake

March 2, 2017 News Release

Azerbaijan: No Progress On Key Reforms

Transparency Group Should Suspend Country’s Membership

An Azerbaijan state flag flutters in the wind on an oil platform in the Caspian Sea east of Baku, January 22, 2013.
March 2, 2017 News Release

Bangladesh: Man Released From Long Secret Detention

Two Others Held Incommunicado Should Be Released or Charged

Police officers stand guard in front of the central jail in Dhaka on December 12, 2013.

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