Articles by Human Rights Watch
Publisher disappears
(HRW/IFEX) – Human Rights Watch has expressed its extreme alarm at the disappearance of Victor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky. On 16 September 1999, Gonchar, vice-speaker of the Thirteenth Supreme Soviet and Krasovsky, head of the “Krasika” publishing house, traveled to a local sauna and were due to return home later that evening. They did not […]
Academic leaders speak out in defence of embattled Iranian scholar
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 7 September 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ACADEMIC LEADERS SPEAK OUT IN DEFENSE OF EMBATTLED IRANIAN SCHOLAR (New York, September 7, 1999) — In an open letter today to the new head of the Iranian judiciary, the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee called for […]
Academic leaders call for release of detained Congolese scholar
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 3 September 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: ACADEMIC LEADERS CALL FOR RELEASE OF DETAINED CONGOLESE SCHOLAR (New York, September 3, 1999) – In an open letter to President Kabila released today, the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee called for the immediate release of Professor Kambaj wa Kambaji. […]
Writer, others, tortured and jailed for distributing banned newspaper
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is an 18 August 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: UZBEK TORTURE VICTIMS SENTENCED TO PRISON TERMS Describe Brutal Torture Methods (New York, August 18, 1999) — Disregarding allegations of torture, an Uzbek court today convicted six men with ties to a banned political party in a high-profile political trial. The […]
Journalist’s family arrested because of his critical stance towards regime
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 13 August 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: ARRESTS IN XINJIANG (August 13, 1999, New York) — Human Rights Watch today called for the immediate release of a prominent businesswoman and five others arbitrarily detained earlier this week in the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. Rebiya Kadeer, known […]
Government threatens Revolutionary Court trials for “incitement”
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 29 July, 27 July, 26 July and 21 July 1999** IRAN THREATENS REVOLUTIONARY COURT TRIALS FOR “INCITEMENT” Televised Confessions Raise Concerns (New York, August 3, 1999) – The head of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court stated on August 2 that his office […]
Assault on independent press intensifies, two reformist dailies likely to face legal proceedings
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 28 July 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 29 July, 27 July, 26 July, 21 July, 15 July, 8 July 1999 and others** Assault on Independent Press in Iran Intensifies (New York, July 28, 1999) — The assault by Iranian authorities against publishers and editors […]
Journalists among those detained by security forces
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 19 July 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: **Updates IFEX alert of 15 July 1999** Identities of Iran Detainees Must Be Public Iranian Government Should Release Non-Violent Protesters (New York, July 19, 1999) — Human Rights Watch today called on the Iranian authorities to release the names of the […]