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January 21, 2021 Letter

Open letter to the European Union and its Member States on Egypt

January 13, 2021 News Release

North Korea: Covid-19 Intensified Systematic Repression

Kim Jong Un Uses Pandemic to Further Isolate Population

Kim Song Ju Primary school students have their temperatures checked before entering the school in Pyongyang, North Korea. 
December 18, 2020 Letter

Letter: GSP+ application and human rights situation in Uzbekistan

November 6, 2020 News Release

Yemen: Jailed Journalists Face Abuse, Death Penalty

Houthi Authorities Should Free 4 Reporters Wrongfully Convicted

Tawfiq al-Mansouri's mother, daughter, and wife hold up a photo of him during a demonstration. Al-Mansouri is one of four imprisoned Yemeni journalists currently facing the death penalty.
November 6, 2020 News Release

Belarus: Expert Report Calls for International Inquiry into Torture

Documented Wide Range of Government Abuses against Protesters, Political

A protester waves the former national Belarus' flag in Minsk, on June 7, 2020, during a collect of signatures in support of alternative candidates ahead of Belarus presidential election on August 9, 2020.
November 3, 2020 News Release

Nepal: Carry Out Rights Panel’s Recommendations

Report Reveals Weak Protections, a Wake-Up Call for Development Partners

Nepal's Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, left, shakes hand with former Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, February 15, 2018. In May 2018, Oli and Dahal parties merged their parties to form the current ruling party, the Communist Party of Nepal.
October 23, 2020 News Release

Iran: Prisoners Who Reported Abuse Charged

Unfair Trials, Impunity, Pressure to Silence Victims

A campaign poster showing environmental activists, Taher Ghadirian, Niloufar Bayani, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Morad Tahbaz and Abdolreza Kouhpayeh.
October 22, 2020 News Release

Egypt: 49 Executions In 10 Days

Mass Executions Follow Suspicious Prison Killings

A satellite photograph of Scorpion Prison taken in September 2016. Inmates suffer abuses in secret and are denied most access to the outside world. Satellite imagery
October 13, 2020 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Egypt

79th Pre-Session

October 1, 2020 News Release

Turkey: Man Dies After Military Custody

Investigate Torture Allegations

Servet Turgut died on September 30 of injuries incurred while in military custody. Pictured here in his village with his grandchild. ©2020 Private
September 29, 2020 Statement

Statement by Russian and International Human Rights Organizations on the Case of Salman Tepsurkaev

A victim of the purge telling his story in a safe house in central Russia in April 2017.
September 16, 2020 Commentary

How to Answer Iraq’s Dangerous Failure to Put a Stop to Torture

Juveniles’ cell at Tal Kayf prison, taken in April 2019 and shared confidentially with Human Rights Watch, shows extreme overcrowding at the prison.
September 16, 2020 Commentary

Justice Is Needed for Belarus

International Scrutiny Is the Way to Get it

Belarusian security forces dragging protester
September 15, 2020 Letter

Bahrain: Joint Letter to Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council Delegates

Re: Upcoming 45th Session of the Human Rights Council

September 15, 2020 Report

Belarus: Systematic Beatings, Torture of Protesters

OSCE, UN Human Rights Council Inquiries Needed

Protesters objecting to the flawed August presidential election and the government's brutality, in march along the Independence Prospect during the "March of Unity" rally in Minsk, Belarus on Sunday, Sep. 6, 2020, Belarus.© 2020 SIPA USA via AP

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