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September 12, 2018 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Prominent Cleric May Face Death Penalty

Escalating Crackdown on Dissent

Saudi authorities arrested Salman al-Awda and over a dozen others in what appears to be a coordinated crackdown on dissent. © 2009 Marwan Almuraisy (Wikimedia Commons)
September 11, 2018 News Release

Australia: Seek Justice for Myanmar Atrocities

End Military Ties, Help Create Mechanism to Prepare Future Prosecutions

Rohingya refugees walk through rice fields after crossing the border from Myanmar into Palang Khali, Bangladesh, October 19, 2017.
September 11, 2018 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Free Right-to-Drive Activists

Encourage Automakers to Press Authorities to Release Detained Women

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September 10, 2018 News Release

Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Rights Campaigner

Brotherhood for Democracy Member on Trial

Nguyen Trung Truc hold a sign, “Condemn the Vietnamese Communist for terrorizing Pastor [Nguyen Trung] Ton”
September 10, 2018 News Release

Syria: Kurdish-led Administration Jails Rivals

Denied Access to Family, Due Process

September 10, 2018 News Release

UN Rights Council: Secure Justice for Myanmar Victims

New Q&A on Prosecutions for Atrocities by Myanmar Forces

Rohingya refugees line up at an aid relief distribution center at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 12, 2018.
September 9, 2018 News Release

China: Massive Crackdown in Muslim Region

Mass Arbitrary Detention, Religious Repression, Surveillance in Xinjiang

Government social media post in April 2017 shows detainees in a political education camp in Lop County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang.
September 7, 2018 News Release

Thailand: Drop Cases for Online Reporting on Alleged Rape

Computer Crime Charges Threaten Media Coverage of Abuses

September 6, 2018 News Release

India: Supreme Court Strikes Down Sodomy Law

Upholds Rights to Privacy, Non-discrimination for LGBT People

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September 6, 2018 News Release

Tunisia: Ennahda Rejects Inheritance Equality

Parties Should Back Moves to End Gender Discrimination

Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi, Islamist Ennahdha Party leader Rached Ghannouchi, and Ennahdha Party vice-president Abdelfattah Mourou wave to the crowd on May 20, 2016 at the opening of Ennahdha's three-day congress in Tunis. ©2016 Fethi Belaid/AFP
September 6, 2018 News Release

Qatar: End All Migrant Worker Exit Visas

New Law Falls Short of Labor Reform Pledges

Migrant laborers work at a construction site at Aspire Zone in Doha, March 26, 2016.
September 5, 2018 News Release

Prisoners Striking for Fair Wages, Humane Conditions Deserve Support

Women in the David L. Moss Correctional Center attend a parenting class, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2017.
September 5, 2018 News Release

US: Deported Parents’ Agonizing Wait

New Video Shows Impact of Separation From Children

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September 5, 2018 News Release

Mauritania: Rape Survivors at Risk

Inadequate Investigations, Prosecutions, Remedies, Support

The criminalization of sexual relations outside marriage in Mauritania puts rape survivors at risk. The law deters them from filing complaints because they could themselves face prosecution.
September 5, 2018 News Release

Iran: Intensified Crackdown on Rights Defenders

Lawyers, Women’s Rights Activists Arrested

Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and Farhad Meysami, a human rights defender, protest the suspension of  Sotoudeh's law license in front of the Tehran bar association in Tehran, February 2015.

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