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Saudi-Led Coalition, Houthis still Ravaging Yemen with War Crimes: Millions at Risk

Saudi-Led Coalition, Houthis still Ravaging Yemen with War Crimes: Millions at Risk

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( Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – Yemen’s armed conflict and humanitarian crisis is resulting in unspeakable suffering for millions of civilians despite increasing global attention to abuses occurring in the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020. The Saudi government’s murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in late […]

Israel/ Palestine
Born Without Civil Rights:  Israel’s Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank

Born Without Civil Rights: Israel’s Use of Draconian Military Orders to Repress Palestinians in the West Bank

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(Human Rights Watch The Israeli army has deprived generations of Palestinians in the West Bank of their basic civil rights, including the rights to free assembly, association and expression, regularly drawing on military orders issued in the first days of the occupation. Even if such restrictions could have been justified then to preserve public order […]

Israel/ Palestine
How the Israel Army Muzzles Free Expression for Palestinians

How the Israel Army Muzzles Free Expression for Palestinians

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52 Years into Occupation, Peaceful Protest, Waving Flags Still Criminalized

India
Muslim Ban goes Global?  How India's Citizenship Bill Discriminates against Muslims

Muslim Ban goes Global? How India’s Citizenship Bill Discriminates against Muslims

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Draft Law Favors Hindus, Other Non-Muslim Immigrants

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Saudi Arabia’s Strategy to ‘Sportswash’ Abuses

Saudi Arabia’s Strategy to ‘Sportswash’ Abuses

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By Minky Worden | Director of Global Initiatives | – (

China
New Leaked Documents Reveal China’s Chilling Crackdown on Muslims

New Leaked Documents Reveal China’s Chilling Crackdown on Muslims

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By Sophie Richardson, China Director | – (Human Rights Watch) – “I’m sure that you will support them, because this is for their own good…and also for your own good.” This was one of the lines officials were instructed to deliver to children returning to Xinjiang and learning that their family members had been sent […]

Iran
Iran: Violent Gov't Crackdown on Protesters with Live Fire and many Casualties, hidden by Internet Blackout

Iran: Violent Gov’t Crackdown on Protesters with Live Fire and many Casualties, hidden by Internet Blackout

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(Human Rights Watch) – (Beirut) – Iranian security forces appear to be using excessive force against protests that emerged after an abrupt government increase in fuel prices across the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities have ordered the near-total shutdown of the internet. Occasional video footage of protests posted on social media amid the […]

censorship
Beacon on a Hill: Iraq Hitting Protesters so Hard even Medics are Attacked

Beacon on a Hill: Iraq Hitting Protesters so Hard even Medics are Attacked

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Fire Teargas, Live Ammunition; Destroy Medical Tents

Human Rights
Saudi Arabia's  High Cost of 'Reform:' Arrests, Torture, Murder

Saudi Arabia’s High Cost of ‘Reform:’ Arrests, Torture, Murder

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Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – Important social reforms enacted under Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have been accompanied by deepening repression and abusive practices meant to silence dissidents and critics, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 62-page report, “‘The High Cost of Change’: Repression Under Saudi Crown Prince Tarnishes […]

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