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June 1, 2023 Report

Ethiopia: Ethnic Cleansing Persists Under Tigray Truce

Rights Abusers in Western Tigray Zone Face No Accountability for Torture, Forced Expulsions

Displaced people from Western Tigray stand outside a school where they are sheltering in Mekele, Ethiopia, February 24, 2021.
April 25, 2023 Report

Iran: Security Forces Kill, Torture, Abuse Children

Young Protesters Unlawfully Detained

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April 13, 2023 Report

Ukraine: Russian Torture Center in Kherson

Unlawful Detention, Torture of Civilians During 8-Month Occupation

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March 21, 2023 Statement

Joint Statement: Halt Extradition of Activist Nasriddinov to Tajikistan

Extradition Places Him at Risk of Torture in Violation of International Law

March 21, 2023 News Release

Belarus: Don’t Return Activist to Tajikistan

Groups Urge Against Extraditing Nizomiddin Nasriddinov

March 17, 2023 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Jordanian Executed After Unfair Trial

Court Ignored Allegation He Confessed to Drug Charge Under Torture

March 6, 2023 News Release

Use Global Meeting to Highlight Bahrain’s Abuses

Joint Letter to Delegates to the Inter-Parliamentary Union

© 2017 Human Rights Watch
March 6, 2023 Statement

Joint Statement: Bahrain's 146th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly

Bahraini anti-government protesters raise signs with images of jailed human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Friday, April 6, 2012, in Jidhafs, Bahrain.
February 15, 2023 News Release

Thailand: Law on Torture, ‘Disappearance’ Delayed

Reverse Key Provisions Unjustifiably Put on Hold

Somchai Neelapaijit
December 5, 2022 News Release

Myanmar: Junta Sentences 10 Prisoners to Death

Commute Sentences; End Capital Punishment

Student Union Cadres demonstrate outside the Myanmar embassy in Nepal against the Myanmar military court death sentence imposed on December 5, 2022, on seven university students who had protested against the military coup in Myanmar.
November 3, 2022 Commentary

In Post-Coup Myanmar: ‘Death Squads’ and Extrajudicial Killings

Pro-junta armed groups that have claimed responsibility for of extrajudicial killings have faced no consequences in Myanmar.

Myanmar military personnel march during a parade
November 1, 2022 News Release

Bahrain: Pope Francis Should Condemn Bahrain Rights Record

Call for End to Death Penalty, Release of Those Unjustly Detained

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October 26, 2022 Statement

Statement to the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament (26 October 2022)

Human rights situation in Kazakhstan

October 20, 2022 Commentary

Russian Police are Torturing Anti-War Activists

Those standing up to the war report horrific instances of abuse at the hands of the authorities

October 19, 2022 Report

Ukraine: Russian Forces Tortured Izium Detainees

Survivors Describe Beatings, Electric Shocks, Waterboarding

“Boghdan” said soldiers forced him into the “parrot position” at least once. He said that in one instance the metal pipe was unable to carry his weight; when soldiers lifted him up, the pipe bent and broke.

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