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1. October 7, 1999 News Release

   Cambodian Parliamentarian Abducted

   Pattern of State Harassment of Opposition Members

   (New York)-- Human Rights Watch today expressed grave concern for the safety of Cambodian opposition member of parliament Lon Phon, after he was abducted from his house on the night of October 6. Lon Phon is a member of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) representing the province of Battambang. His ...

2. October 7, 1999 News Release

   Jordan University President Should Reinstate Ousted Director

   Human Rights Watch and Middle East Studies Association Protest Political Dismissal

   In a joint letter, the Committee on Academic Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa and the Academic Freedom Committee of Human Rights Watch called on Jordan University president Dr. Walid Ma'ani to reinstate Dr. Mustafa Hamarneh as director of the university's Centre for Strategic ...

3. October 6, 1999 Statement

   Statement of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International at the 54th Session of the United Nations-General Assembly

   Special Political and Decolonization Committee/ Fourth Committee

   Statement of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International at the 54th Session of the United Nations-General Assembly Special Political and Decolonization Committee/ Fourth Committee Agenda item No. 96- on the Question of East Timor New York Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International would like to ...

4. October 4, 1999 News Release

   Halt El Sayegh Deportation to Saudi Arabia

   Saudi Promise Not to Torture Insufficient

   In a letter sent to Attorney General Janet Reno, Human Rights Watch called on the U.S. to stay the deportation order against Hani El Sayegh under the Convention against Torture. El Sayegh is scheduled to be deported to Saudi Arabia on October 6. A Saudi national, El Sayegh was extradited to the U.S ...

5. October 4, 1999 News Release

   Palestinian Authority Security Force Abuses

   End Arrests of Journalists and Media Closures

   Human Rights Watch urged President Yasir Arafat to publicly denounce security forces' attacks on journalists and to prosecute all officials who violate the right to free expression. "The P.A. is using the threat of arrest and closure to silence its critics," said Hanny Megally, ...

6. October 4, 1999 News Release

   Kazakh Elections Tainted

   In a report Freedom of the Media and Political Freedoms in the Prelude to the 1999 Elections, Human Rights Watch charged that the government was repeating the manipulation used in the January election of President Nazarbaev. These tactics, which include the banning of opposition candidates and ...

7. September 30, 1999 News Release

   Rights Organization: Don't Reward Russia Again

   The West should not repeat past mistakes in its policy toward Russia's ongoing conflict in Chechnya. Russian air strikes in Chechnya, now a week old, have raised fears of a ground invasion and a repeat of the catastrophic 1994-1996 war, which cost thousands of civilian lives. In 1994, the ...

8. September 30, 1999 News Release

   Anti-Christian Violence on the Rise in India

   New Report details politics behind extremist Hindu attacks

   (London) – The Indian government has failed to prevent increasing violence against Christians and is exploiting communal tensions for political ends, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today. The 37-page report, Politics by Other Means: Attacks Against Christians in India, details ...

9. September 30, 1999 News Release

   Abuse Continues as Turkish Premier Visits U.S.

   Turkish human rights activists face intense persecution as their prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, visits the U.S. this week. Meeting with President Clinton Tuesday, Ecevit basked in praise for recent reforms and the Saturday release from prison of Akin Birdal, president of the Turkish Human Rights ...

10. September 30, 1999 News Release

    "As Fragile as a Crystal Glass:" Press Freedom in Iran

    Independent newspaper editors, publishers, and journalists in Iran are suffering arbitrary detention, assault and prosecution. These attacks have become more frequent during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, as conservatives within the government have sought to suppress what has emerged as the ...

11. September 30, 1999 News Release

    China: Human Rights at Fifty Years

    Human Rights Watch today urged the People's Republic of China to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its founding by releasing all prisoners and detainees held for the peaceful expression of their views. "China's history over the last half-century has been marked by the designation ...

12. September 30, 1999 News Release

    Pinochet Extradition Seen

    (London)- As the extradition hearings of Gen. Augusto Pinochet closed today, Human Rights Watch expressed confidence that Magistrate Ronald Bartle would commit the former dictator for extradition. "This is an open and shut case," said Reed Brody, Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch, ...

13. September 29, 1999 News Release

    Police Violence in Serbia Condemned

    The Serbian police used unnecessary and excessive force against peaceful anti-government demonstrators in Belgrade on September 29, Human Rights Watch charged, and warned that the violence may mark a new government response to Serbia's ongoing street protests. "This is not an issue of ...

14. September 29, 1999 News Release

    Moscow Authorities Falsely Charging Ethnic Chechens

    On September 20, police detained "Aslan," a Chechen man, and brought him to a police precinct, where he was searched, questioned, had his mug shot taken, and fingerprinted. Last week, Human Rights Watch decried the round-up of 20,000 non-Muscovites in Russia's capital as " ...

15. September 27, 1999 News Release

    Clinton Meets Turkish Prime Minister Ecevit

    Rights Group Sees Opportunity for Progress

    Bulent Ecevit's meeting at the White House today, September 28, comes at a critical moment for Turkey. While Turkey's human rights record has improved, many abuses continue. Yesterday, 170,000 copies of the newspaper Akit ("Contract") were confiscated by Istanbul State Security ...

16. September 27, 1999 News Release

    Strong Independent Commission of Inquiry Urged for East Timor

    (New York)-- Human Rights Watch today urged the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to vote for the creation of an international commission of inquiry into possible crimes against humanity in East Timor. But the group warned that the effectiveness and credibility of an investigation could be ...

17. September 27, 1999 News Release

    Pinochet Extradition Hearings "Historic"

    (London)- Human Rights Watch described as "historic" the proceedings which begin today on the extradition of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. "Pinochet's victims have waited 25 years for this historic moment," said Reed Brody, Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch, which took part ...

18. September 26, 1999 News Release

    Rights Group Condemns Deaths in Turkish Prison

    Calls on Government to Remove Gendarmerie from Prisons

    Human Rights Watch condemned the apparent use of excessive force by Turkish gendarmerie at the Ankara Closed Prison over the weekend that resulted in the deaths of eleven prisoners and serious injury to many others. Human Rights Watch called on the Justice Minister Prof Hikmet Sami Turk to ensure ...

19. September 23, 1999 Statement

    Statement by Human Rights Watch to the Commission on Human Rights

    Special Session on East Timor, Geneva, September 23-24, 1999

    of pro-independence supporters being stabbed by militias en route to or in West Timor, detailed accounts of militia ...

20. September 23, 1999 News Release

    Protect Refugees In West Timor

    (New York)-- Human Rights Watch today welcomed an agreement that would give staff of the UNHCR safe access to the violence- wracked refugee camps in West Timor, but cautioned that no discussion of resettlement or return should take place before the physical security of all who fled or were forced ...

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