Elsewhere in the world “The Voice of Hind Rajab”, shortlisted for the Oscar for best foreign movie, has major distributors — but not in the United States or Israel. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

US federal immigration enforcement agents now commonly operate masked and without visible identification, compounding the abusive and unaccountable nature of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

Egyptian authorities should quash the conviction of economist Abd al-Khaliq Farouk, who on October 2 was sentenced to 5 years for articles and social media posts in violation of his free speech and due process rights. His appeal is scheduled for Dec 25. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

The US is carrying out a campaign of extrajudicial killings with deliberately lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific oceans without any credible legal basis. HRW has determined the strikes are illegal under international law www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

Qatari government clients and other major businesses are failing to pay contractors on time for projects, leaving migrant workers unpaid. Subcontractors and others in the supply chain are also affected and themselves shortchange workers. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

HRW: The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

Iranian authorities are escalating their repression of Baha’is, with a recent series of harsh prison sentences and asset confiscations www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

"If the administration has evidence to show that the people on the targeted boats are smuggling drugs and are a threat to Americans, then why is it not putting survivors on trial in U.S. courts?" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

HRW: The detention of an Emirati dissident in Syria raises serious concerns that the United Arab Emirates will pressure Syrian authorities to extradite him www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

A French national arrested more than a year ago for not having a valid permit for the Hajj should have a fair trial and attention for his health needs: www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

The Israeli Supreme Court gave the government its 9th extension to respond to a petition by journalists for access to Gaza—the case was filed in September 2024. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

HRW: Governments that partner with the United States on counternarcotics efforts should join other nations that have publicly objected to the Trump administration’s unlawful strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

Tunisian authorities arrested three prominent activists in recent weeks after their unjust convictions in a sham trial on charges of conspiracy and terrorism. The authorities should immediately overturn the unjust convictions and release all those detained www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

HRW's submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Egypt now available online: www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

UN experts shocked by conviction of human rights lawyer Ayachi Hammami in Tunisia: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency, and rights but failed to prevent continued violence and atrocities. Syrian authorities should credibly address outstanding concerns around security sector reform www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

HRW: The Trump administration’s latest actions on immigration policy appear to be based on punitive hostility toward people of particular nationalities and carry an unmistakable current of racism www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

A CNN investigation found that Israeli forces killed aid seekers near the Zikim crossing in Gaza with indiscriminate fire and bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves or left their remains to decompose in the open, unable to be recovered edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...

Ahmed Chebbi, a leading figure in the Tunisian opposition for decades, was arrested at his home today after being sentenced on appeal last week to twelve years in prison for conspiracy against state security—all conspiracy case defendants are now detained. www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

The police in Tunisia on Tuesday arrested Ayachi Hammami, a prominent opposition figure and human rights lawyer, the latest sign of severe backsliding toward authoritarianism www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/w...

French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes was sentenced in Algeria today on appeal to seven years in prison on terrorism related charges. www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

The X “About this account” feature raises serious concerns about user privacy and safety. It exposes location information without meaningful user consent and lacks adequate human rights safeguards www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

The arrest and return of an asylum seeker who took his children to the Club World Cup soccer tournament final on July 13, 2025, raises serious concerns about the safety of noncitizens attending the 2026 World Cup in the United States: www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

The UN has launched a major reform plan to make it more efficient and cost-effective. Unfortunately, it has offered little on how this will impact its already understaffed and underfunded human rights work and the victims it is intended to help. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

El Hishri’s transfer to the ICC marks an important moment for international justice in Libya, after decades in which armed groups committed serious abuses, including in migrant detention centers and prisons, with impunity. apnews.com/article/icc-...

HRW: the Trump administration’s deportation policies undermine federal visa programs that provide a pathway for crime victims to obtain legal residency when they cooperate with law enforcement. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

A political prisoner died on November 19, 2025, in the UAE's notorious al-Razeen Prison after more than a decade of unjust imprisonment and torture allegations: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Member countries of the ICC should intensify efforts to protect the court and human rights groups campaigning for justice from attack. HRW's 20-page report makes detailed recommendations for the annual session of the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

Houthi authorities have detained dozens of political opponents since July 2025, including the leaders of several political parties in Yemen, some of which may amount to enforced disappearances www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

A Tunis Appeal Court last week sentenced 34 defendants in the politically motivated “Conspiracy Case” to between 5 and 45 years in prison. These harsh sentences stem from a gross distortion of the justice system and are only meant to silence dissent. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Among many politically-driven trials in #Tunisia is the one faced by 5 staff of Tunisian Council for Refugees, a key partner of the UN Refugee Agency . @eudiplomacy.bsky.social should stop ignoring the reality that its silence is complicity into deeper repression. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Five employees of the Tunisian Council for Refugees will go on trial today amid a broader crackdown on civil society in Tunisia. Authorities should drop the charges, release two detained employees, and stop criminalizing the work of independent groups www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

22 organizations, including HRW, call on the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights to act decisively to address the dire, protracted human rights crisis in Egypt following its review of the situation in the country: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

HRW has found that the Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The 32,000 people removed have not been permitted to return to their homes www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Bahraini authorities have detained Ebrahim Sharif, a prominent political activist, for peaceful comments he made in Beirut: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

There is strong evidence that Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman approved the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. This assessment no longer ceases to be true simply because it has become politically and economically inconvenient for President Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Powerful op-ed from Btselem on accountability in Gaza: "Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

HRW has issued recommendations on next steps for comprehensive justice for Syria: -Prioritize inclusive justice -Promote close cooperation -Ensure domestic legislative reforms and ICC jurisdiction -Build political will and partnerships for justice www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Come work with us! Human Rights Watch is hiring a research assistant on Tunisia and Libya, based in Tunis: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

Physicians for Human Rights finds a staggering 94 documented cases of Palestinian deaths in Israeli detention between October 7, 2023 and August 2025. It alleges "a deliberate Israeli policy of killing Palestinians in custody" www.phr.org.il/en/palestini...

Read more on Tunisia’s ever-worsening abuses in this month’s @hrw.org & @amnesty.org updates, which I screenshot above in this 🧵. Thanks to their teams including @khawaja.bsky.social. And to you all for reading & sharing this. 1) www.hrw.org/news/2025/11... 2) www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...

Egyptian passport control prevented Alaa Abd el-Fattah from flying to the UK. The British-Egyptian writer and human rights campaigner was pardoned after 10 years in prison, but authorities aren't letting him leave the country. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Governments negotiating a new global treaty on gig work should strengthen the draft text to ensure fair wages and social security for these workers and protect them from exploitative management: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

A Tunisian Court will on Monday hear the appeal of 37 people unjustly sentenced to heavy prison terms in the politically motivated “Conspiracy Case.” Four of those detained are on hunger strike, including one who was subjected to physical violence www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Lebanese authorities released Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi, on November 10, 2025, ending nearly 10 years of arbitrary detention without trial. They should also formally drop all baseless charges against him www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Algeria has pardoned French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal after a request from Germany. He us set to be transferred for medical treatment after a year in detention www.france24.com/en/live-news...

The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Amnesty: Tunisian authorities have over the past three years increasingly dismantled protections for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, particularly Black people, with a dangerous shift towards racist policing and widespread human rights violations www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Israeli settlers carried out at least 264 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during October, the biggest monthly total since the UN began tracking these attacks in 2006: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The US government should address Saudi human rights abuses during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s expected visit to Washington, DC, on November 18—the first since he approved the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in March 2018 www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...