Human Rights Watch

The draft law will enable the state to ban the activities of foreign or international nongovernmental organizations deemed to be undermining “state security,” “national defence,” or “constitutional order.”

“Fear still hangs over the people of Uzbekistan.” On 13 May 2005, government forces killed hundreds of protesters who had gathered to speak out against poverty and government repression.

The ECHR has ruled that Azerbaijan violated Emin Huseynov’s rights in 2008. But he will have to celebrate within the confines of the Swiss Embassy in Baku, where he has been taking refuge since August 2014.

A Turkish court on April 29, 2015, released from prison a lawyer facing trial for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but he should not be facing such charges in the first place, Human Rights Watch said.

Officials from the internationally recognized Libyan government said in a statement on April 29, 2015, that two Tunisian journalists who had been missing in eastern Libya since September 2014 had been killed.

When Azerbaijani authorities arrested Aliyev in August, a journalist asked him what he was accused of. He responded calmly: “Those who defend human rights and political prisoners and report on election fraud are considered criminals in this country. [So,] I am one of those criminals.”

The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s original request to register had been denied in March 2013 because their name was deemed “unacceptable.”

The United States Senate should definitively end bulk data collection and reject a new bill that would endorse and extend the National Security Agency’s mass violation of privacy rights in the US.