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Asia

September 18, 2019 News Release

Indonesia: Draft Criminal Code Disastrous for Rights
Middle East/North Africa

September 10, 2019 News Release

Iran: Draconian Sentences for Rights Defenders
Middle East/North Africa

July 31, 2019 News Release

Lebanon: Festival Cancels Mashrou’ Leila Concert

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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

Reports More Reports

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

July 30, 2019 News Release

Mauritania: Blogger in ‘Blasphemy’ Case Freed After 5 Years
July 12, 2019 Report

Crimean Tatars Face Unfounded Terrorism Charges
June 23, 2019 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Religious Thinker on Trial for His Life
June 21, 2019 Letter

Joint Letter to President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
June 21, 2019 News Release

President Should Free Mauritanian Jailed for Online Article
May 31, 2019 Commentary

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

Published In: Le Monde
May 22, 2019 News Release

Brunei: New Report on Abusive Penal Code
May 22, 2019 Background Briefing

Brunei’s Pernicious New 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

Daily Brief

September 20, 2019

Global climate strike; abusive evictions in Kenya's Mau Forest; Congolese warlord sought by the International Criminal Court has been killed; European Parliament adopts a strong resolution on Myanmar's cleansing campaign against Rohingya; Britain should practice what it preaches; and Human Rights Watch and four other plaintiffs appeal US law that imposes criminal liability for online speech about sex work.

Interactives More Interactives

December 24, 2014

THE UNRAVELLING: The Central African Republic Crisis

The Unravelling: Journey Through The Central African Republic Crisis