Tag: Human Rights Watch

Activists accused Beijing of crippling Hong Kong's parliament Friday after four pro-democracy lawmakers were disqualified. More than 1,000 people protested ...

Legislators and human rights advocates angrily denounced the Philippine government on Friday for reinstating 19 policemen linked to the killing ...

When China allowed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo to die in police custody, it made a bet that world governments were ...

Baghdad is investigating allegations of torture and rights abuses meted out by Iraqi security forces to Islamic State prisoners in ...

Videos allegedly shot in the Mosul area appear to show Iraqi security personnel executing a detainee and brutally beating others, ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday wrapped up a four-day mission to the Gulf with little sign of ...

Rights campaigners on Thursday welcomed an "overdue" reform in Saudi Arabia to allow girls to take part in sports at ...

The soldiers came at dawn to Fulgence Rukundo's house in a village in western Rwanda, and accused him of stealing ...

At least six police officers were killed and four injured in Laikipia in Kenya's central highlands on Wednesday in the ...

The family of China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo declined to let doctors put him on artificial ventilation on Wednesday, ...

Indonesia has issued a decree allowing it to ban groups that oppose its official state ideology, in a move seen ...

The hospital treating China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo offered a grim update on his health on Wednesday, but human ...

Human rights groups in Senegal on Tuesday criticised what it said is an ineffectual crackdown on child begging driven by ...

Hopes are running high in Sudan that US President Donald Trump will decide this week to lift Washington's sanctions on ...

Witnesses described looting and finding a dead body, but the trial of 12 soldiers accused of raping foreign aid workers ...

Bangladesh security agencies have secretly detained scores of opposition activists many of whom have later been killed, an international rights ...

The hills around revered Tibetan Buddhist academy Larung Gar were once a seamless carpet of vibrant red, dominated by the ...

Both Kenya's leading presidential contenders have pulled out of two planned televised debates ahead of the August 8 election, their ...

"Heavy gunfire in Zemio. Impossible to go out. They have cut the phones and we can't go out -- it's ...

The EU warned Monday of possible violence in Kenya's elections as it deployed observers ahead of the August 8 poll ...