Tags - Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch has over the years been criticized for biased and double standards application of human rights norms enshrined in the UN Declaration which undermines the credibility of its reports that serve capitalistic interests, while undermining governments that pursue independent and developmental state models.
News ID: 448698 Publish Date : 2020/01/29
Human Rights Watch and the UK-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) have censured Bahraini officials for failing to provide adequate medical care to jailed political activists, as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its clampdown on human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners in the kingdom.
News ID: 447465 Publish Date : 2019/10/12
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced a recent Nigerian court ruling that bans the movement led by jailed Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, calling on the Abuja government to reverse the ban, which prevents the group’s members from “exercising their right to carry out peaceful activities.”
News ID: 446242 Publish Date : 2019/07/31
Indian police are hunting for about a dozen people who tortured a Muslim man for 12 hours and captured it on a video that has gone viral since his death shortly afterwards.
News ID: 445638 Publish Date : 2019/06/26
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Human Rights Watch has condemned the Saudi authorities for seeking the death penalty against a reformist religious thinker and critic on charges that bear “no resemblance to recognized crimes.”
News ID: 445605 Publish Date : 2019/06/24
The US has stopped funding for a Twitter account after revelations that it works for the State Department.
News ID: 445232 Publish Date : 2019/06/02
The brother of detained Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has detailed in an opinion piece the abuse his sister has endured in prison.
News ID: 443256 Publish Date : 2019/02/01
A cross-party group of British parliamentarians and international lawyers has asked Saudi Arabia to allow them access to the maximum security Dhahban prison, where the regime holds female activists, amid reports of torture and sexual harassment there.
News ID: 442802 Publish Date : 2019/01/03
Rasa - Bahrainis are heading to the polls on Saturday in a parliamentary election from which opposition groups have been barred in a crackdown on dissent in the Western-allied kingdom as tensions with the Shiite Muslim opposition show no signs of abating.
News ID: 441722 Publish Date : 2018/11/25
Rasa - Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Bahrain has failed to provide conditions for fair and free voting in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the country.
News ID: 441648 Publish Date : 2018/11/21
Rasa - More than 100 rights groups have called on Bahrain to "immediately release" prominent opposition figure and pro-democracy campaigner Nabeel Rajab after the United Nations condemned his detention as "arbitrary" and "discriminatory."
News ID: 439296 Publish Date : 2018/08/29
Rasa - Amnesty International has once again blasted Bahrain for denying vital medical care to jailed pro-democracy activists, saying the cruel and inhumane practice is putting the prisoners’ lives at risk.
News ID: 439015 Publish Date : 2018/08/08
Rasa - Human Rights Watch has called on authorities in Myanmar to compensate for illegally confiscated land and reform laws to protect farmers.
News ID: 438699 Publish Date : 2018/07/18
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Rasa - Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, has condemned a newly passed law that bans figures of dissolved opposition parties and organizations from running in parliamentary elections.
News ID: 438245 Publish Date : 2018/06/14
Rasa - Human Rights Watch has described the election of Donald Trump and the rise of populist leaders in Europe as a "profound threat" to basic human rights.
News ID: 437980 Publish Date : 2018/05/31
Rasa - Human Rights Watch has urged Myanmar's military to ensure humanitarian aid reaches all civilians who have been caught in fighting between the army and an ethnic armed group in the country's northern state of Kachin.
News ID: 436338 Publish Date : 2018/02/10
Rasa - Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Bahraini officials have deported eight people to Iraq after stripping them of their citizenship and making them stateless, as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissent and pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
News ID: 436264 Publish Date : 2018/02/04
Rasa - Amnesty International has denounced the Saudi regime’s relentless crackdown on activists and critics, urging the immediate and unconditional release of those detained for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression, among them a prominent cleric.
News ID: 435870 Publish Date : 2018/01/18
Rasa - Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have strongly condemned the jail terms handed down to three family members of a prominent activist living abroad, stating that the verdicts are clearly indicative of the extremes, which the Al Khalifah regime is prepared to go in order to crush political dissent in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
News ID: 434505 Publish Date : 2017/10/31
Rasa - Human Rights Watch has decried Saudi Arabia’s "coordinated crackdown on dissent" against a backdrop of arresting scores of opponents, including prominent clerics, in the kingdom.
News ID: 432432 Publish Date : 2017/09/15