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Turkey suffering 'rights rollback' under Erdoğan: HRW
Turkey is undergoing a 'worrying rollback' on human rights under Erdoğan, Human Rights Watch said
HRW Claims Bulgaria Mistreating Syrian Refugees at Border with Turkey
Bulgarian border police have forced Syrian asylum seekers back to Turkey and has beaten some of them over the past month, a new report released by Human Rights Watch claims.
Bulgaria Accused of Expelling Syrian Refugees
The international rights group Human Rights Watch on Thursday said it had documented three separate incidents of summary returns from Bulgaria to Turkey involving at least 43 people, all Syrians.
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New Turkish Internet law to deepen censorship and increase surveillance: HRW
The new legal amendments should be overturned, Human Rights Watch says
Israel likely to have committed Gaza war crimes: HRW
Israel is likely to have committed war crimes in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said Sept. 10, a day after the army announced five criminal investigations into incidents involving its forces.
UN-funded African troops raped vulnerable Somalis: HRW
Internationally-funded African Union troops in war-torn and impoverished Somalia have raped women and traded food aid for sex, Human Rights Watch said in a damning report on Sept. 8.
"Some of the women who were raped said that the soldiers gave them food or money afterwards in an apparent attempt to frame the assault as transactional sex," the HRW report said.
Lack of Internet freedom in Turkey requires deeper systemic changes, rights groups say
Turkey must engage in reforms beyond legislation to quell the lack of Internet freedoms, several rights group said in a joint press conference organized in the sidelines of the ninth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, held this year in Istanbul.
No justice for chemical attack victims in Syria: HRW
Human Rights Watch said Aug. 21 that hundreds of victims of a chemical weapons attack in Syria remained without justice one year on, days after Damascusâs stockpile was completely destroyed.
Today marked the first anniversary of the attack on the capitalâs Ghouta region, a stronghold of the rebel movement, which the United States estimated killed up to 1,400 people.
One dead in Egypt clashes on crackdown anniversary
At least one person was killed in Egypt Thursday as police quashed attempts by supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to commemorate the first anniversary of a brutal Cairo crackdown.
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HRW urges 'crimes against humanity' probe of top Egypt officials
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused top officials in Egypt of likely "crimes against humanity" in an August 14, 2013 crackdown in which hundreds of protesters were killed.