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February 24, 2017 News

Briefing on Shrinking Space for Civil Society in Russia

Presented at the Carnegie Center on February 23, 2016, by experts from Human Rights Watch and EU-Russia Civil Society Forum

“Civic Space in Eurasia: Ideas for Change” Russia 2017 About this paper According to the CIVICUS 2016 State of the Civil Society Report[1], over 100 countries have faced serious restrictions and threats to civic freedoms in…

June 2, 2016 News

Tiananmen Archives, 1989-2004

15 Years of Human Rights Watch Research on the Tiananmen Massacre

Reports, news releases, and campaigns published by Human Rights Watch from 1989-2004 on the June 1989 massacre at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Coverage of Tiananmen Arrests and Trials, 1989-1991 June 12, 1989: New Information…

April 18, 2013 News

Universal Periodic Review: HRW Submission on Russia

16th UPR session, April - May 2013

Summary Starting in June 2012, the Russian government reversed small, positive steps taken since the previous UPR, which had slightly loosened excessive government control over civil society organizations and aimed to improve pluralism in the political…

February 26, 2008 News

Chronology of Hu Jia’s Case

2006 Hu Jia spends 168 days under house arrest. February 16, 2006: Police take Hu Jia away from his home and detain him incommunicado for 41 days. His wife Zeng Jinyan starts a blog retracing the steps she takes in trying to find out his…

June 2, 2006 News

Chronology of Case Against NYT Researcher Zhao Yan

Chronology of the case against Zhao Yan, the Chinese assistant at the New York Times Beijing bureau who has been accused of leaking state secrets and of lesser fraud charges. The trial is expected to begin June 8.

November 22, 2005 News

Russia: Parliament Considers Law that Restricts NGO Work

A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper

On November 23, 2005, the State Duma, Russia’s parliament, is scheduled to consider a draft law that would dramatically restrict the work of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in Russia. The representative offices of foreign groups, including…

November 27, 2001 News

Fact Sheet: Past U.S. Criticism of Military Tribunals

(Washington, DC) - Under President Bush's November 13th Military Order on military commissions, any foreign national designated by the President as a suspected terrorist or as aiding terrorists could potentially be detained, tried, convicted and even…

October 18, 2001 News

China: Human Rights Concerns in Xinjiang

Human Rights Watch Backgrounder

In the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States, the People's Republic of China has offered strong support for Washington and affirmed that it "opposes terrorism of any form and supports actions to combat terrorism." Human Rights Watch is…

August 3, 1992 News

Charged with Leaking State Secrets, Trial of Bao Tong Begins

On July 21, in the most important political trial in China in twelve year, a three-judge panel of the Beijing Intermediate People's Court sentenced Bao Tong had been taken into custody on May 28, 1989 and held without charge, incommunicado for much of the…

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