Human Rights Watch

The arrest of Rwandan journalist Théoneste Nsengimana and nine opposition party officials points to an intensified crackdown by government on dissent.

In separate incidents in Kashmir in October 2021, unidentified gunmen shot and killed seven people, four of them from the Hindu and Sikh minority communities.

“The Belarusian Helsinki Committee has a long record defending a wide range of human rights. The lawsuit is blatant retaliation for the group’s work and is another piece of the effort to annihilate the human rights movement in Belarus.” – HRW

Facial recognition has a wide range of uses in Moscow, from monitoring public transportation payments to traffic monitoring and a school pass system. More than 5,000 cameras with facial recognition software already operate in other regions of Russia.

In recent weeks, three parliament members have been imprisoned for speech offenses, and at least 50 Tunisians have been placed under arbitrary house arrests, including former officials, a judge, and three lawmakers.

Human Rights Watch said Malaysia’s new government should stop and reverse the actions of the previous government, which investigated and prosecuted citizens simply for exercising their civil and political rights.

These leaked videos offer a glimpse of what happens behind bars in Iran, but they are likely the tip of the iceberg, says Human Rights Watch.

A new report by Human Rights Watch documents the cases of 86 victims in Bangladesh who were forcibly disappeared and who remain missing.