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Asia

April 10, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: Reporter Jailed for Quoting Hun Sen on COVID-19
Asia

April 2, 2020 News Release

Myanmar: Editor Wrongfully Charged
Asia

April 2, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: Emergency Bill Recipe for Dictatorship

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July 12, 2019 Video

Video: Crimean Tatars Face Unfounded Terrorism Charges
June 6, 2019 Video

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 30th Anniversary Trailer
January 31, 2019 Video

Video: Dashed Hopes for Free Expression in Myanmar

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February 28, 2020

Tunisia: Unfinished Rights Business

New Government Should Suspend Abusive Laws
November 14, 2019

Algeria: Escalating Repression of Protesters

Leaders Arrested Ahead of Disputed Presidential Elections
November 8, 2019

Iraq: Teargas Cartridges Killing Protesters

Total Security Force Killings Since Protests Resumed at Over 100

News

March 18, 2020 Dispatches

Prominent Journalist Freed in Azerbaijan

Giorgi Gogia
Associate Director, Europe and Central Asia Division
March 17, 2020 News Release

China: Reverse Ban on American Journalists
March 17, 2020 News Release

Algeria: Prominent Journalist Facing Charges
March 3, 2020 News Release

Sri Lanka: Security Agencies Shutting Down Civic Space
February 28, 2020 Report

Tunisia: Unfinished Rights Business
February 17, 2020 News Release

EU: Press Vietnam on Human Rights Reforms
February 10, 2020 News Release

Philippines: Duterte Seeks to Shut Network
January 28, 2020 News Release

Algeria: Post Election Repression
January 22, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: Opposition Leader’s Trial Blocked to Public
January 22, 2020 News Release

Qatar: 5-Year Prison Sentence Set for ‘Fake News’
January 19, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: Drop Charges Against 2 Journalists
January 17, 2020 News Release

Lebanon: Police Violence Against Protesters

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Syrian Military "at the Highest Level" Responsible for Chemical Attacks: Daily Brief

Daily Brief

Syrian military "at the highest level" responsible for chemical attacks; COVID-19’s devastating impact on children; EU urgently needs to relocate kids in overcrowded Greek camps; pressure on IMF to make coronavirus funds transparent and accountable; missing activist in Bangladesh; demeaning measures against LGBT people in the Philippines; new Instagram series on people hit by COVID-19; and no, the pandemic is not "a great leveller."