Press TV - Human Rights Watch has criticized the Ankara governments ongoing cross-border offensive in Syrias northwestern region of Afrin against the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG), stating that the Turkish military has failed to adopt necessary measures to avoid civilian casualties. The New York-based group, in a statement released ...

Press TV - Human Rights Watch saysMyanmars military summarily executed and sexually assaulted dozens of Rohingya Muslims during a raid on a village in the west of the country over a month ago. According to a report released by the international human rights group on Wednesday, the Myanmar army attacked a residential compound where a large number ...

Press TV - Human Rights Watch says the US killed at least 84 civilians, including scores of children, in airstrikes on a school and market near the northern Syrian city of Raqqah in March. In a report released on Sunday, the rights group said USwarplanes bombed a school housing displaced families in the town of Mansourah on March 20, killing ...

Press TV - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for harsh international sanctions against the Myanmar military over its brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against the countrys Rohingya Muslims. In a statement released on Monday, the New-York based rights body slammed Myanmars army generals for turning a deaf ear to international condemnations of ...

Press TV - The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that 14 Shia Saudi citizens are at imminent risk of execution after Saudi Arabias Supreme Court upheld their death sentences in mid-July following an unfair trial over protest-related charges. In a Thursday report, the HRW cited the families of the 14 men as saying that they were transferred ...

Press TV- Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Myanmarese government forces have committed rape and other sexual violence against women and girls of the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority while carrying out their so-called counter-militancyoperations in the western province of Rakhine. The rights group on Mondaystrongly calledon the Southeast Asian country ...

Press TV- Human Rights Watch has condemned the Bahraini regime for detaining activist Sayed Alawi, who has been held incommunicado for five weeks with no criminal charges brought against him and without any access to a lawyer or his family. The New York-based rights group said in a statement that Manamas refusal to provide information on the ...

Press TV- Human Rights Watch has called for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over its atrocious aerial bombardment campaign against Yemen, stating that the United States could be held accountable for "atrocities" being perpetrated against war-stricken Yemenis by providing munitions to the Riyadh regime. The New York-based rights group said in ...

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized Bahrain for failing to stop torturing political prisonersand dismissed Manamas much-hypedclaims of reforms. Bahraini authorities have failed to stop torture and failed to address the culture of impunity that fosters torture, the Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, Sarah Leah Whitson,said in ...

Tehran, January 20, The Iran Project A leading international rights group on Tuesday called Israeli and International businesses to stop business ties with Jewish-only settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and to avoid contributing Israeli violation of Palestinians' rights. Human Rights Watch, issued a statement on Tuesday, demanded ...

A human rights group says Saudi Arabia and the United States should ensure the safety of Yemeni civilians during the Saudis'ongoing airstrikes on theirimpoverished neighbor. In letters to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the US should investigate laws-of-war ...

MOSCOW, December 21 (Sputnik) Irans six-month visa extension to450,000 Afghan refugees is helpful butdoes not spare the refugees fromthe threat ofdeportation due tono access toasylum status amidthe country's ongoing civil war, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said ina report Sunday. The visa extension wont remedy a broken asylum system that routinely ...

Human Rights Watch says Bahraini regime forces have used tear gas disproportionately and unlawfully in their clampdown on anti-regime protests in the Persian Gulf kingdom. The rights group said security forces in Bahrain have repeatedly used tear gas disproportionately and sometimes unlawfully in suppressing anti-government demonstrations since the ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Takfiri militants killed 190 civilians and held over 200 others hostage in Syrias western province of Latakia in August alone. In a report released on Friday, the New York-based rights group presented evidence that anti-Syria terrorist groups carried out the killings and the hostage-taking in their several-day operation ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 8 (MNA) A Human Rights Watch official criticized an Arab League decision to set up a pan-Arab human rights court in Bahrain. The establishment of a glitzy new court wont disguise the fact that Bahrain has a dismal and worsening record in that regard, Nicholas McGeehan, Gulf researcher with Human Rights Watch, told Reuters. U.S.-allied ...

Seven Facebook users were slapped with prison sentences ranging between five to 10 years for allegedly calling for protests in Saudi Arabia. They were also further banned from travel, after the completion of their sentence. According toHuman Rights Watch: Saudi authorities arrested the men between September 23 and 26, 2011, then detained them in ...