Human Rights Watch

“Thailand’s junta should immediately stop arresting and prosecuting student activists,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “While insisting they aren’t dictators, the Thai generals have used the military courts as a central feature of their crackdown against peaceful criticism and political dissent.”

Violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity has been an endemic problem in Turkey – and met by silence from most state officials.

“German authorities should have been clear from the start that Ahmed Mansour risks serious violations of his human rights if he is sent to Egypt,” said Wenzel Michalski, Germany director of Human Rights Watch.

Police in Armenia used force to disperse a largely peaceful protest on June 23, 2015, raising concerns about potential human rights violations.

Russian authorities blocked the website of a consumer protection group that had called Crimea an “occupied territory.” The Prosecutor General’s Office said that by doing so – and urging tourists to abide by Ukrainian laws – the organization sought to undermine Russia’s territorial integrity

In a joint letter, NGOs and membership organisations have called on the National Assembly of Cambodia to immediately withdraw the draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO).

“The government needs to recognize that the freedom to express your gender is as fundamental as any other freedom,” said HRW after a Sharia (Islamic law) court in Malaysia has sentenced nine transgender women to fines, and two to one-month jail terms.

The largest development bank in the world has done little to prevent or dissuade governments from intimidating critics of the projects it funds.