Articles by Human Rights Watch
Call for release of imprisoned writer
SYRIA: RELEASE IMPRISONED RIGHTS DEFENDERS (HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 4 October and 1 April 1999, 29 September, 17 September and 10 September 1998, 11 October and 27 January 1995** (New York, October 25) Human Rights Watch today called on President Hafez al-Assad of Syria […]
Crackdown on independent media continues
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 17 October 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: **For background on Tonet’s arrest and recent harassment of journalists, see IFEX alerts of 8 October, 4 October, 16 September, 14 September, 17 August, 13 August, 11 August and 10 August 1999** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 17, 1999 Crackdown On Angola’s […]
Academic leaders demand release of imprisoned scholar
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 13 October 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: **Updates IFEX alert of 7 October 1999** IMPRISONED KUWAITI SCHOLAR Academic Leaders Demand Release (New York, October 13, 1999) — In an open letter today to the emir of Kuwait, Human Rights Watch’s Academic Freedom Committee called for the immediate release […]
Singer faces three years in prison
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is an 8 October 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DROP LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST LEBANESE SINGER Marcel Khalifa Faces Three Years in Prison (New York, October 8, 1999) –Human Rights Watch today condemned efforts in Lebanon to prosecute the internationally known singer and composer Marcel Khalifa because one […]
Freedom of expression limits taint elections
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release Kazakh Elections Tainted Parliamentary Campaign Manipulation Echoes Presidential Election Tactics (New York, October 5, 1999) – In a new report released ahead of this week’s parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, Human Rights Watch charged that the government was repeating the manipulation used in the January […]
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. […]