Publication Feb 15, 2018 Navalny Website Blocked In Russia Over ‘Rybkagate’ Report (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) – Internet service providers in Russia began blocking access to opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s website on February 15 following an order from the country’s communications regulator,…
Publication Feb 14, 2018 Recruitment of child soldiers still rising in South Sudan (Aljazeera) – The civil war in South Sudan is now in its fifth year. It has killed thousands and displaced millions. Monday marked International Day against the use of Child…
Publication Feb 14, 2018 Duterte to Int’l Criminal Court: Drug war continues, case or no case MANILA, Philippines – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sought to appear unfazed by the International Criminal Court (ICC) preliminary examination into his drug war, saying it will not stop the controversial…
Publication Feb 14, 2018 Cambodia parliament adopts lese-majeste law, prompting rights concerns (Reuters) – Cambodia’s parliament on Wednesday unanimously adopted a law that forbids insulting the monarchy as rights groups expressed concern the legislation, in effect in neighboring Thailand, could be used…
Publication Feb 14, 2018 Libya’s supreme court blocks legal challenges to draft constitution (Reuters) – Libya’s supreme court blocked legal challenges from lower courts to a draft constitution on Wednesday, paving the way for a possible referendum on the document and a move…
Press Release Feb 13, 2018 Umbrella Movement Leaders Freed — For Now NEW YORK (February 13, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes the decision of Hong Kong’s highest court to overturn the prison sentences of student protesters Joshua Wong, Alex Chow, and Nathan Law, who led the 2014 Umbrella Movement.
Publication Feb 12, 2018 How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village INN DIN, Myanmar – Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a shallow grave. Soon afterwards, on the morning of Sept. 2, all 10 lay…
Press Release Feb 12, 2018 HRF Mourns the Passing of Leading Pakistani Lawyer Asma Jahangir NEW YORK (February 12, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) mourns the passing of Asma Jahangir, a leading Pakistani lawyer who dedicated her career to defending the rights of…
Publication Feb 8, 2018 International Criminal Court Will Investigate Duterte Over Drug War MANILA — The International Criminal Court said on Thursday that it was opening a preliminary investigation into accusations that President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine officials had committed crimes against…
Publication Feb 8, 2018 ICC to open preliminary probes in Philippines, Venezuela Feb 8, 2018 (The Washington Post) – The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Thursday that she is opening preliminary probes into alleged crimes by police and security forces in the Philippines…
Publication Feb 7, 2018 Kenya deports opposition lawyer charged with treason (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities deported a lawyer charged with treason for attending the symbolic presidential inauguration of opposition leader Raila Odinga, prompting a rare rebuke from the Chief Justice who…
Publication Feb 7, 2018 Tajik Election Law Changes Seen Favoring President’s Son (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – The lower chamber of Tajikistan’s parliament has approved amendments to the laws on presidential and parliamentary elections — lowering the eligibility age from 35…
Publication Feb 6, 2018 Air strikes pound Syria’s last rebel strongholds, gas chokes civilians (Reuters) – Warplanes launched heavy attacks on the two last major rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 29 people in the Ghouta suburb near the capital and choking people…
Publication Feb 6, 2018 Azerbaijani Opposition Coalition To Boycott Early Election (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – The head of Azerbaijan’s opposition National Council of Democratic Forces says the coalition will boycott an early presidential election that has been scheduled for…
Media Feb 6, 2018 Hong Kong Court Throws Out Protest Leaders’ Prison Sentences HONG KONG — Three leaders of protests that filled Hong Kong streets for weeks had their prison sentences thrown out by Hong Kong’s highest court on Tuesday, in a case…
Publication Feb 5, 2018 Azerbaijan Schedules Snap Presidential Election In April (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – Long-ruling President Ilham Aliyev has brought the date of Azerbaijan’s presidential election forward by more than six months, to April 11, in a move…
Media Feb 5, 2018 Witness to a massacre: former Myanmar soldier saw his village burn After they finished burning the bodies, the soldiers ordered chicken curry. Nazmul Islam watched as local Buddhists set about preparing food for the men he says raped and massacred scores…
Media Feb 5, 2018 Ecuador’s Correa barred from presidency in national referendum (Miami Herald) – In 2015, with the backing of a compliant congress, [Correa] successfully scrapped presidential term limits. Although the changes wouldn’t take effect until 2021, many worried Correa was…
Media Feb 5, 2018 China’s RSDL a licence to disappear, hold and torture dissenters China, which British Prime Minister Theresa May visited last week and with which the Vatican has reportedly signed a controversial deal, is a land of euphemisms. Underneath the glistening bright…
Media Feb 2, 2018 Cambodian government criminalizes insult of monarchy PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s government adopted a lese majeste law on Friday that would make it a crime to insult the king and which rights groups said they feared could be…
