Human Rights Watch has condemned Israels forced transfer of Bedouin families in the occupied West Bank, describing it as a prosecutable war crime. "The Israeli military should end its unjustified attempts to forcibly remove a decades-old community," the rights organizations Middle East director, Joe Stork, said in a statement on Thursday. On September ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A surge of attacks on journalists since a new president took office in Yemen may overwhelm the recent progress towards freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch warned. While the government of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi has eased controls on the media as part of broader human rights reforms, it has neither denounced nor ...

Dec 14 (Reuters) - Iranian civil society activists have been subjected to a "campaign of repression" in the last three years, with many killed, detained or forced to flee abroad, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday. Iran's government has cracked down on political opposition members, rights activists, journalists, ...