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August 14, 2018 Commentary

Will Russia Bring Home Children Who Lived Under ISIS/the Islamic State?

Zagidat Abakarova, 33, and her one-year-old daughter Mariam, returned to Dagestan, Russia, from northern Syria in October 2018
August 3, 2018 Dispatches

Four Years on, Evidence of ISIS Crimes Lost to Time

Iraq Should Exhume Yezidi Mass Graves

Yezidis at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province, August 10, 2014.
August 3, 2018 News Release

US Sent ISIS Detainees to Possible Abuse

Transfer from Northern Syria to Lebanon Raises Torture, Fair Trial Concerns

A Lebanese soldier at an army post in the hills above the Lebanese town of Arsal
August 1, 2018 Report

Syria: Thousands of Displaced Confined to Camps

Areas Taken from ISIS Restricting Free Movement

View from hill overlooking Ain Issa displacement camp in Syria, May 2018. © Human Rights Watch
July 31, 2018 Report

Iraq: Judges Disregard Torture Allegations

Failure to Investigate, Punish Security Forces Implicated in Abuse

Risafa Central Criminal Court in Baghdad, where Human Rights Watch sat in on 18 felony trials in June and July, 2018.
July 26, 2018 Commentary

The Latest ISIS Casualty? UK’s Principled Opposition to the Death Penalty

Home Secretary Sajid Javid walks out of the Home Office on April 30, 2018 in London, England.
July 22, 2018 Report

Iraq: Intelligence Agency Admits Holding Hundreds Despite Previous Denials

Ex-Detainee Describes Degrading Conditions

A blank NSS arrest warrant provided to Human Rights Watch. © 2018 Private
July 3, 2018 News Release

Syria: Mass Graves in Former ISIS Areas

Local Group Struggling to Recover Bodies, Preserve Evidence

Members of the First Responders Team in Raqqa city, Syria exhume a body from a mass grave at the al-Rashid playing field.
June 24, 2018 News Release

Iraq: Displaced Families Blocked from Returning

No Security, Military Reason for Arbitrary Restrictions

Residents of Shahama camp speak with relatives through the camp fence.
June 21, 2018 Report

Iraq: Change Approach to Foreign Women, Children in ISIS-Linked Trials

Rushed Proceedings, Lack of Due Process, Disproportionate Sentences

Russian women, sentenced to life in prison on grounds of joining ISIS, sit with children in a hallway of Baghdad's Central Criminal Court, April 29, 2018. © 2018 Ammar Karim/AFP/Getty Images
May 31, 2018 News Release

Iraq: Impartial Justice Effort Needed

New UN Investigation on ISIS Has Limited Mandate

The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss adopting a resolution to help preserve evidence of Islamic State crimes in Iraq, during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York, U.S., September 21, 2017. © 2017Reuters
May 14, 2018 Commentary

How Journalists May Put ISIS Suspects at Risk of Abuse

A member of the Iraqi security forces walks past a wall painted with the black flag commonly used by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, January 8, 2017. © 2017 Reuters
April 26, 2018 News Release

Iraq: Local Forces Banish ISIS Suspects’ Families

Relatives Punished Though Considered Innocent

Minutes of a meeting in al-Ba’aj on February 7, 2018, where sheikhs and mukhtars were instructed not to grant security clearances to relatives of ISIS members. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch
April 24, 2018 Commentary

Not So Fast: US Syria Pullout Plan Must Address Key Humanitarian Issues

A fighter from Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands next to debris of damaged buildings in Raqqa, Syria, September 25, 2017. © 2017 REUTERS
April 20, 2018 News Release

Iraq: Officials Dispose of Potential War Crime Evidence

No Results From Promised Investigations

Burned out remains of a room in a damaged house in Mosul’s Old City, following the authorities’ removal of about 80 bodies, April 4, 2018.  © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch

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