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Europe/Central Asia

July 12, 2019 Report

Crimean Tatars Face Unfounded Terrorism Charges
Middle East/North Africa

Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a Saudi religious reformist thinker on a host of vague charges relating to his peaceful religious ideas, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi authorities arrested Hassan Farhan al-Maliki in September 2017 and have detained him since, finally bringing charges in October 2018.

June 23, 2019 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Religious Thinker on Trial for His Life
Middle East/North Africa

June 21, 2019 News Release

President Should Free Mauritanian Jailed for Online Article

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June 6, 2019 Video

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 30th Anniversary Trailer
May 1, 2019 Video

China's Mass Surveillance Phone App
February 6, 2019 Video

Video: Danish Jehovah's Witness Dennis Christensen Sentenced to 6 Years in Russia

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July 12, 2019

Crimean Tatars Face Unfounded Terrorism Charges

Raids, Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of Activists
June 28, 2018

Pakistan: Ensure Ahmadi Voting Rights

Repeal Discriminatory Laws Against Religious Community
June 28, 2018

Russia: Sweeping Arrests of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Religious Persecution, Other Abuses

News

June 21, 2019 Letter

Joint Letter to President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
May 31, 2019 Commentary

Mauritania: Blogger Mkhaïtir's Fate Lies in the Hands of the President

Published In: Le Monde
May 22, 2019 Background Briefing

Brunei’s Pernicious New Penal Code
May 22, 2019 News Release

Brunei: New Report on Abusive Penal Code
May 7, 2019 News Release

Algeria: Judicial Harassment of Human Rights Lawyer
May 3, 2019 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Second Case Against Jailed Shia Cleric
April 9, 2019 News Release

Indonesia: New Book on Ethnic, Religious Violence
March 30, 2019 News Release

Mauritania: 2 Bloggers Held for Defamation
March 26, 2019 News Release

India: Parties Should Pledge to Protect Rights
March 20, 2019 News Release

Iran: Harsh Sentence for Rights Lawyer Threatens Activism
March 4, 2019 Commentary

Why Some Chinese Immigrants Living in Canada Live in Silent Fear

Yaqiu Wang
China Researcher

Published In: The Globe and Mail
March 4, 2019 News Release

EU: Press Vietnam on Rights Record

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Muzzling Free Speech in Israel: Daily Brief

Daily Brief

Democracy at stake & Palestinian homes bulldozed in Israel; newly elected UK Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson set on delivering Brexit; ripping more families apart in the US; Syria’s president might still have his Nuremberg moment; Indian transgender bill raises rights concerns; LGBT rights activist murdered in Russia; deadly crackdown on Shia protesters in Nigeria; and European Union countries agree on new migrant allocation system.

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