Category: Human Rights

(Beirut) – A Tunisian court sentenced a man to death last week for peaceful Facebook posts, Human Rights Watch said today. He received a presidential pardon days later, but this is an unprecedented sentence for nonviolent expression in Tunisia. Tunisian authorities should stop detaining and prosecuting people solely for exercising their right of expression. Saber […]

Rights organizations have condemned a deadly nighttime assault in central Myanmar in which motorized paragliders, or “paramotors,” dropped explosives on civilians, killing more than 20 people, including children, during the Thadingyut Festival of Lights. The Attack Witnesses in Chaung-U Township, Sagaing Region, reported that the first strike occurred around 8 p.m. on Monday, as residents […]

Conakry, 8 October 2025 — Press freedom groups have called on Guinean authorities to ensure the safe return of 75-year-old Elhadj Adama Keita, the father of exiled journalist Mamoudou Babila Keita, who was abducted by unidentified men in Nzérékoré on September 29. Circumstances of the Abduction According to witnesses, Keita was seized outside his home […]

OHCHR in the Occupied Palestinian Territory expressed dismay that “the Israeli military is destroying Gaza City, forcing Palestinians to flee and then killing them when they seek shelter in Middle Gaza, especially in and around An Nuseirat Camp.”  Amid the ongoing displacement and influx of internally displaced persons (IDPs), Israel intensified strikes on the northwestern […]

(New York) – The Chinese government should drop the baseless charges against the artist Gao Zhen (高兟) and allow him and his family to return to the United States, Human Rights Watch said today. Gao’s family said the 69-year-old artist, a permanent US resident, is in poor health and had fainted in September 2025. Chinese authorities […]

The Hague, 7 October 2025 — The International Criminal Court (ICC) has delivered a landmark ruling, convicting Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, a former commander of Sudan’s Janjaweed militia, for atrocities committed in Darfur more than 20 years ago. It marks the ICC’s first conviction linked to the Darfur conflict, a […]

Paris, 7 October 2025 — French prosecutors have launched a formal war crimes investigation following the death of photojournalist Antoni Lallican, who was killed on 3 October while reporting near the front lines in southeastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Legal Action and Jurisdiction The investigation was announced by France’s National Anti-Terror Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) and assigned […]

The case stems from a 2023 request by the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO), which asked the Court for an advisory opinion on whether the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) includes the right to strike. Adopted in the aftermath of World War Two, […]

The United Nations Human Rights Council on October 6 extended a project to gather evidence of human rights violations and war crimes associated with Sri Lanka’s civil war for at least two more years. The resolution adopted by consensus offers a ray of hope to victims of abuses and their families that they may one […]

Washington, 6 October 2025 — A federal judge has temporarily barred U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from automatically transferring unaccompanied migrant children into adult detention facilities once they turn 18, ruling that the practice violates existing legal protections. Court Ruling The decision, issued by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the […]