Human Rights Watch today expressed concern over the detention and forthcoming trial of thirteen Iranian Jews accused of espionage. In a letter to the head of Iran's Judiciary, Human Rights Watch asked Ayatollah Shahroudi not to let the detainees become "innocent casualties of political ...
Human Rights Watch called on the Sierra Leonean rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) to honor their promises to release abducted children and prisoners of war. The RUF agreed to immediately release all non-combatants in a May 18 cease-fire agreement, and again in the July 7 Peace ...
Corporal Foday Saybana Sankoh Leader of the Revolutionary United Front Lome, Togo Dear Corporal Sankoh: Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned about the RUF's lack of compliance with the agreement to release prisoners of war and non-combatants as stipulated in the May l8 Ceasefire Agreement, ...
In a letter released today, Human Rights Watch asked Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to raise two pressing human rights cases in her upcoming meetings with the leaders of Morocco and Syria. "There are urgent humanitarian grounds for the Secretary to intervene in these cases, and her ...
Human Rights Watch condemned the August 29 bomb attack against the offices of the Popular Training Institute (Instituto Popular de Capacitación, IPC), a well-known non-governmental organization based in Medellín, Colombia, that works on issues involving human rights, development and peace. Local ...
We are writing with regard to your upcoming visit to Morocco and Syria. There is in each country an especially pressing individual case requiring urgent action on humanitarian grounds. We therefore request that you raise these two cases in your talks with the respective governments, and ask that ...
More deaths in East Timor are inevitable unless immediate, collective pressure is brought to bear on the Indonesian government to stop its regular security forces from aiding proxy militias, Human Rights Watch said today, in the aftermath of four and possibly five deaths in Dili on Thursday. That ...
The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers welcomed last night's Security Council resolution condemning the effects of war on children. The Coalition expressed disappointment, however, that the Council failed to call for stronger measures to stop the use of child soldiers. "The ...
Human Rights Watch today urged that any tribunal established to try Khmer Rouge leaders should adhere to the highest international standards. The group criticized as inadequate a U.N. proposal for a domestically-constituted tribunal in Cambodia with international participation, although it noted ...
Human Rights Watch continues to believe that justice is best served by a fully international tribunal. In the event, however, that a tribunal is established under Cambodian law, Human Rights Watch considers the following to be minimal acceptable benchmarks for a credible and legitimate tribunal: 1. ...
A Tibetan who was detained in China along with two foreigners investigating the impact of a World Bank project is at serious risk of torture or ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. The international monitoring group called on the World Bank along with the U.S. and Australian governments to ...
On Aug. 30, barring further delays, the people of East Timor will vote on whether they wish to remain part of Indonesia as an autonomous region or form an independent state. Virtually all eligible voters, almost 450,000, have now registered, despite violence and intimidation from Indonesian army ...
Human Rights Watch today called on the World Bank to intervene at the highest levels with officials in Beijing to help secure the release of two foreigners detained in Qinghai Province, site of a controversial new World Bank project. "The World Bank should press Beijing to release these two ...
In letters sent to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, Human Rights Watch questioned the U.K. government's pursuit of Northern Ireland journalist Ed Moloney. In July, Moloney was served with an order issued by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), ...
Human Rights Watch expressed grave concerns about widespread shelling and fierce fighting over the last few days in the streets of Kisangani. The fighting is between Rwandan and Ugandan regular forces backing competing factions of the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD). The headquarters of ...
Disregarding allegations of torture, an Uzbek court today convicted six men with ties to a banned political party in a high-profile political trial. The attorney for four of the men reported that all six defendants, including the brothers of exiled political opposition leader Muhammad Solih, ...
Human Rights Watch asked the government of Jordan to hold Iraq's number two leader, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, for trial or for extradition on charges that he is among those responsible for crimes of genocide, torture, and mass murder Ibrahim left Vienna earlier today on a flight to Amman, Jordan, ...
In a letter to Jordanian Prime Minister Abdur-Ra'uf Rawabdeh, the international monitoring organization asked them to hold Ibrahim for trial in Jordan or to extradite him to a country able and willing to try him. Mr. Ibrahim has for much of the last two decades effectively been the number two ...
In a letter to King Abdallah, the international monitoring organization asked them to hold Ibrahim for trial in Jordan or to extradite him to a country able and willing to try him. Mr. Ibrahim has for much of the last two decades effectively been the number two person in the government of President ...
An Iraqi leader accused of genocide, mass murder, and torture was released today by the Austrian government. The move was quickly criticized by Human Rights Watch. Earlier today, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the vice-chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) and top aide to Saddam ...
