The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights Watch

No sign of restrictions being lifted despite information blackout and losses suffered by daily-wage earners, businesses.

Thirty opposition figures deemed critical of president have been arrested in recent months, Human Rights Watch says.

The Commons Home Affairs Committee is expected to examine the policing of the coronation, including the arrest of members of Republic.

Rights group claims the military used a thermobaric bomb in last month’s deadly attack on a village in Sagaing.

Human Rights Watch has accused Myanmar’s military of using an “enhanced blast” munition known as a fuel-air explosive in an airstrike that killed more than 160 people, including many children, at a ceremony held last month by opponents of army rule

Jordan on Sunday ended laws enacted at the start of COVID-19 that gave the authorities powers to enforce a state of emergency that rights groups said were used as an excuse to suppress civic and political liberties.

Four coup opponents were executed last July and more than 100 people are on death row for political reasons.

Human Rights Watch joins 50 other groups to call for release of Egyptian academic Salah Soltan, detained in Egypt.

Campaign group follows lead of Pentagon, FBI and CIA to insert its messages into popular film and TV culture

Human Rights Watch says Muslims in Xinjiang are flagged as ‘violent extremists’ for simply practising their religion.

FRANCE 24 and its sister radio RFI have joined a group of 30 African and international news organisations and monitors in an appeal for press freedom in Mali and Burkina Faso. The news outlets and rights groups call on the authorities of these two countries and the international community to…