Blood on the tracks: Formula 1 in Bahrain
Decision to go ahead with race plays into regime’s hands says rights group… The decision to go ahead with the Grand Prix on April 22, 2012, gives Bahrain’s rulers the opportunity they are seeking to obscure the seriousness of the country’s human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today. The decision was announced [...]
Thushi is the wife of a Tamil Tiger leader who disappeared, and Nilani is his sister-in-law… Thushi: At the time I joined the LTTE they didn’t force recruitment, instead they gave speeches at schools and I was motivated by Ilamparithi’s description of the Tamil struggle. I joined when I was 16. Ilamparithi described [...]
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Shanthi is a mother and widow, forty-two years of age, who was displaced many times in the course of the war… Shanthi’s story speaks for the experiences of many ordinary Tamil people who fled across the Vanni as the military forces advanced. Her story is typical among survivors’ stories in many aspects. This is [...]
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Hundreds still in prison for speaking out; senior officers unpunished… Bahrain’s government has not carried out critical recommendations by the independent commission that looked into extensive human rights violations during the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), established by King Hamad [...]
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Reports of residents forced to march in front of soldiers in Idlib… Syrian government forces have endangered local residents by forcing them to march in front of the army during recent arrest operations, troop movements, and attacks on towns and villages in northern Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. Witnesses from the towns [...]
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Rasadurai was caring for a group of children from an orphanage in the No fire Zone during the end of the war… Before we were forced to leave Kilinochchi, I dug six bunkers in the churchyard. We have dug bunkers all across the Vanni. Every time we had to move, the first thing we [...]
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Beatings and detentions mark anniversary of peaceful Iraq protests… Uniformed security forces clamped down on demonstrations marking February 2012 anniversaries of the start of weekly protests in Iraq, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces blocked access to protest sites in Baghdad; beat and arrested peaceful demonstrators in Sulaimaniya, Kurdistan; and briefly detained, [...]
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‘Democratic’ Iraq starts 2012 with a period of executions that hark back to the Saddam era… Iraqi authorities should halt all executions and abolish the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the beginning of 2012, Iraq has executed at least 65 prisoners, 51 of them in January, and 14 more on [...]
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