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February 22, 2021 News Release

Yemen: UAE-Backed Forces Torture Journalist

Adel al-Hasani Apparently Detained for Critical Reporting

Members of UAE-backed southern Yemeni separatist forces stand by a tank during clashes with government forces in Aden, Yemen August 10, 2019.
February 9, 2021 News Release

Human Rights Council: Countries Should Take Bold Action on Egypt

Monitoring, Tough Message on Dire Rights Situation Long Overdue

Egyptian security forces have been involved in systematic abuses such as enforced disappearance and torture and have used abusive counterterrorism laws and measures to crush peaceful dissent. Egyptian security forces stand guard outside one of the entranc
February 7, 2021 Letter

Joint Letter to the European Union Ahead of Meeting With Bahraini Delegation

EU-Bahrain Cooperation Agreement Must Depend on Human Rights Improvements

Bahraini political opposition leaders, activists, bloggers, and human rights defenders imprisoned for their roles in the 2011 pro-democracy protests.
February 5, 2021 News Release

UN: Grave Allegations Involving Visiting Bangladesh Army Chief

Documentary Alleges Links Between General Aziz and Security Force Abuses

Army chief General Aziz Ahmed (R) looks on during a program in a refugee camp in Ukhia on November 24, 2019.
February 1, 2021 News Release

Sri Lanka: Justice Under Attack

UN Human Rights Council Should Pursue Accountability

A older man in glasses clapping
January 25, 2021 Commentary

Declassify the Post-9/11 Torture Program

January 21, 2021 Letter

Open letter to the European Union and its Member States on Egypt

January 13, 2021 News Release

North Korea: Covid-19 Intensified Systematic Repression

Kim Jong Un Uses Pandemic to Further Isolate Population

Kim Song Ju Primary school students have their temperatures checked before entering the school in Pyongyang, North Korea. 
December 18, 2020 Letter

Letter: GSP+ application and human rights situation in Uzbekistan

November 6, 2020 News Release

Yemen: Jailed Journalists Face Abuse, Death Penalty

Houthi Authorities Should Free 4 Reporters Wrongfully Convicted

Tawfiq al-Mansouri's mother, daughter, and wife hold up a photo of him during a demonstration. Al-Mansouri is one of four imprisoned Yemeni journalists currently facing the death penalty.
November 6, 2020 News Release

Belarus: Expert Report Calls for International Inquiry into Torture

Documented Wide Range of Government Abuses against Protesters, Political

A protester waves the former national Belarus' flag in Minsk, on June 7, 2020, during a collect of signatures in support of alternative candidates ahead of Belarus presidential election on August 9, 2020.
November 3, 2020 News Release

Nepal: Carry Out Rights Panel’s Recommendations

Report Reveals Weak Protections, a Wake-Up Call for Development Partners

Nepal's Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, left, shakes hand with former Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, February 15, 2018. In May 2018, Oli and Dahal parties merged their parties to form the current ruling party, the Communist Party of Nepal.
October 23, 2020 News Release

Iran: Prisoners Who Reported Abuse Charged

Unfair Trials, Impunity, Pressure to Silence Victims

A campaign poster showing environmental activists, Taher Ghadirian, Niloufar Bayani, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Morad Tahbaz and Abdolreza Kouhpayeh.
October 22, 2020 News Release

Egypt: 49 Executions In 10 Days

Mass Executions Follow Suspicious Prison Killings

A satellite photograph of Scorpion Prison taken in September 2016. Inmates suffer abuses in secret and are denied most access to the outside world. Satellite imagery
October 13, 2020 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Egypt

79th Pre-Session

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