Surprise, Surprise!
HRW, is a joke to act so surprised about this in any way.
and to talk of the Taliban like they are being abused is absolutely ignorant.
Thousands of Taliban suspects have been illegally and secretly held in military detention, the report said, and some units of the Pakistan Army allegedly engaged in summary executions of prisoners.
I don't see a problem with this, the Taliban are really bad guys and they do plenty enough harm to the people of Pakistan that if they are imprisoned/executed they probably deserve it.
So what we know is that Pakistan as a country is a cesspool of Islamic stupidity.
(Reuters)
In its World Report 2011, the New York-based rights organization said militant violence was fostered by the passive acceptance of persecution of religious minorities and had active help from some elements of the intelligence agencies.
"Taliban atrocities aren't happening in a vacuum," said Ali Dayan Hasan, senior South Asia Researcher for Human Rights Watch, "but instead with covert support from elements in the intelligence services and law enforcement agencies."
Last year, hundreds of people died in militant attacks, 11 journalists were killed, target killings terrorized Karachi and minorities were singled out.
At least 80 Ahmadis, who consider themselves Muslim but who Pakistan declared non-Muslims in the 1970s, were killed in twin attacks, and bombings at Sufi shrines killed dozens.
Salman Taseer, the liberal governor of Pakistan's most populous province, was gunned down by one of his bodyguards for supporting changes to Pakistan's harsh blasphemy law, and Senator Sherry Rehman, who also called for changes, is now a virtual prisoner in her own home because of death threats.
The government of the avowedly secular Pakistan People's Party, headed by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, has done little to combat the growing religious extremism, distancing itself from Taseer and Rehman, and failing to curb calls for their deaths from mosques.
"The religious parties used (blasphemy) laws to blackmail the government," Mehdi Hassan, chairman of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), told Reuters. "The religious right use these laws as a pressure tactic against the government and the government succumbs to these pressures."
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Pakistan has "disastrous year" for human rights in 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
321 Civilians Killed in 2009 Congo Massacre
The LRA "Lords Resistance Army" , A militant Christian Army , and are no better than the Taliban or Al Qaida .
Chritianity with a little Mysticism and Witchcraft thrown in for Fun , Religious whackos eitherway , One more Example of how Religion plays such a big part in the Many world conflicts !
And it is never Good !
Foxnews
A human rights group says at least 321 civilians were killed by the Lord's Resistance Army in Congo in a previously unreported massacre in late 2009.
New York-based Human Rights Watch adds that at least 250 people were abducted by the rebels, including at least 80 children during the killing spree in the Makombo area of northeastern Congo.
Senior Africa researcher Anneke Van Woudenberg calls the massacre "one of the worst ever committed by the LRA in its bloody 23-year history."
Yet the massacre targeting at least 10 villages, which occurred from Dec. 14-17, 2009, went unreported for months.
The LRA is a Ugandan rebel movement that was pushed out of Uganda and is now in a tropical forest straddling the border between Congo and the Central African Republic.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Human Rights Watch: Saudi Arabia must offer equality to Shias
How about offering equal rights to Christians, Jews, Hindus and anyone else who isn't muslim? BBC
A report by the Human Rights Watch pressure group has detailed what it says is systematic discrimination in Saudi Arabia against Shia Muslims.
Unfavourable treatment of minority Shia extends from education and employment to the justice system, leading to a big increase in sectarian tension, it says.
They comprise 10 to 15% of the Saudi population, and have long complained of being treated as second-class citizens.
Human Rights Watch wants a government commission to tackle the problem.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel over Gaza drones
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Missile-firing Israeli drones unlawfully killed at least 29 Palestinian civilians during the Gaza Strip war, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
If Israel Knowingly fired missiles at civilian targets then they should pay for it ! But all the Evidence points the other Direction !
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Despite having advanced surveillance equipment, drone operators failed to exercise proper caution "as required by the laws of war" in verifying their targets were combatants, the New York-based monitoring group said, issuing a 39-page report that described six alleged strikes by remote-controlled aircraft.
For one , They seem to Know a little about the Surveillance Capabilities of the Israeli drone operators , if so would they not Know about their Missile firing capabilities ? if this is the case why do they need surveillance video to prove their point ( Or Non point )
Israel has a fleet of spy drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), but refuses to confirm or deny widespread beliefs that some of the aircraft also carry weapons.
The military cast doubt on Human Rights Watch's research methods -- a criticism echoed by some independent experts -- and, in a statement, asserted that all Israeli actions "conform to international law, as do the weapons and munitions used."
Israel launched its December-January offensive to counter rocket fire from Hamas-ruled Gaza, and has since weathered foreign censure over the killing of some 1,400 Palestinians, many of them civilians, during the fighting.
Human Rights Watch based its findings primarily on debris from Israeli-made Spike missiles, which it said are fired from drones. The report also called on Israel to publish drone surveillance footage, to show how targets were identified.
Asked how it was possible to know that the Spikes in question had been fired by drones rather than these other means, Marc Garlasco, Human Rights Watch's senior military analyst, cited the corroboration of Palestinians who said they had seen or heard the pilotless planes.
The rest goes on to disprove in many ways how it is difficult to tell whether they were drones or not ,Especially since a couple of the Attacks were at night !
Maybe Human rights watch needs to look at "Real" human rights violations in the world , Like al Shabaab and the Taliban cutting of peoples hands and feet !or the blowing up of schools or randomly launching unguided Missiles into another country , then trying to make an example of a country defending itself !
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Arrests jolt Beijing families during Games
Dissident, imagine if in America we were labeled like this ,And then arrested every time a major event took place , or were just arrested for applying for a permit?
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Dong Jiqin is watching a provincial television channel instead of the Beijing Olympics this summer because the arrest of his dissident wife has taken the gloss of the celebrations.
"I cannot watch the Games," Dong said from his cluttered cement-floor living room-dining room combo in the heart of the capital. "I'm afraid my wife isn't safe. We think the Olympics should be held, but I am just not in the mood to watch it."
The government has defended the stepping up of security, with more than 100,000 police and troops on patrol in Beijing, citing terror threats to the Games which end on Sunday.
The New York-based Human Rights in China says 24 protesters, Communist Party critics and their family members were detained or closely guarded before the Olympics opened on August 8. Countless others were captured in the months prior to silence critics as thousands of foreign reporters descended on the city.
Dong's wife, Ni Yulan, was jailed in April, when authorities began clearing out activists and others they felt may launch embarrassing protests during the Games in front of a global audience.
In another case, petitioners Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, were sentenced to one year of "re-education through labor" after repeatedly applying to hold demonstrations in the areas Beijing has set aside for protests during the Games, Human Rights in China said on Wednesday, citing Wu's son.
The two women, who had planned to demonstrate against their forced eviction from their homes in 2001, may serve their term outside the labor camp but their movements are restricted. They can no longer apply to demonstrate, the organization said.
None of the dozens of applications to protest in the protest zones has been granted.
Ni was detained for a year in 2002 over filming a controversial home demolition project in her neighborhood. She also speaks regularly to reporters about issues in China and helps anti-government petitioners get an audience.
She was not planning to protest during the Games, Dong said.
Ni, 48 and disabled from a fight with authorities in 2002, is being held now for "hampering government work", police records say.
Dong says a group of plain-clothed officers illegally entered their house on April 15, cut power and phone lines and destroyed parts of the house.
"They wanted to see us stuck in jail so the Olympics would look better," said Dong.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Human Rights Watch Accuses Fatah & Hamas of Abuses
No shit. The report naturally blames the US for Fatah's and Hamas' abuses. Surprisingly they don't blame Israel. The report also ignores the fact that Hamas, Fatah and other groups regularily fires rockets, motars at Israel from civilian areas. Killing and injuring innocent Israeli civilians. Reuters
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas and Fatah have both carried out serious human rights abuses over the past year, including arbitrary arrests and torture, according to a report on the bitter power struggle.
Human Rights Watch, in the report released on Wednesday, cited a pattern of politically motivated arrests, mock executions and severe beatings in detention centers run by Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip and President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah faction in the West Bank.
It faulted the United States and other donors, which have bankrolled Abbas's Palestinian Authority and Fatah-dominated security forces, for "not paying adequate attention to the systematic abuses by those forces".According to Human Rights Watch, masked Fatah security men in the West Bank have arrested hundreds of Hamas members and supporters without warrants.
The report said Fatah forces often tortured detainees during interrogation, apparently resulting in one death. Torture methods included mock executions, kicks and punches, and beatings with sticks, plastic pipes and hoses, it said.
The most common form of torture was forcing detainees to stay in "stress" positions, a practice known in Arabic as shabah, which causes intense pain and sometimes internal injury but leaves no physical mark, Human Rights Watch said.
Hamas forces in Gaza committed many of the same abuses, including arbitrary detentions accompanied by severe beatings and, in two cases, multiple gunshots at close range to the legs, Human Rights Watch said. In at least three cases, individuals died in custody, apparently from torture, the report said.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Human Rights Watch ,Report On China!
As has been said in the past China is trying to look good to cover up their B.S,
A new 71 page report from H R W , tells a lot about what they are doing ,
The China news
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In the report, it has documented how several foreign journalists have suffered beatings or detention in the past 10 months, while others have been threatened with the loss of their Olympic accreditation because the government disliked their reports.
One reporter was kicked and punched by suspected plainclothes security agents who detained him for two hours when he visited an illegal jail in Beijing where petitioners were detained.
At least 10 foreign correspondents - and some of their family members - were subjected to anonymous death threats from Chinese individuals in phone calls, e-mailsand text messages in March and April during the Tibetan unrest.
But despite many complaints from the Foreign Correspondents Club of China, government officials have refused to investigate the death threats, the report says.
well , what are you supposed to do when they beat you down?
Another tactic is the detention or intimidation of Chinese sources who speak to foreign journalists. One Chinese person who spoke to a foreign television crew in March was beaten by police so severely that he needed hospital treatment, the report says.
The attacks on Chinese sources have increased during the past year, the report said.
Heres the report
Friday, May 23, 2008
Charges Dropped Against Saudi Couple For Beating Maid
The BBC article conveniently forgets to mention that Saudi law is based on islamic law. The charges were dropped against the Saudi couple because whatever the "right hands [possesses]" may be treated as slaves. A lot of maids in Saudi Arabia are treated as such. BBC
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Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi judges to overturn a decision to drop charges against a Saudi couple accused of severely abusing an Indonesian maid.
A judge in Riyadh awarded $670 damages to the maid, Nour Miyati, but dropped all charges against her employers.
The female employer, who admitted the abuse and was originally sentenced to 35 lashes, had her sentence overturned.
Human Rights Watch said the ruling on Monday was "outrageous", and sent "a dangerous message" to Saudi employers. Ms Miyati, 25, contracted gangrene after allegedly being tied up for a month and left without food in 2005. She had to have several fingers and toes amputated.
New York-based Human Rights Watch called for an appeals court to "impose stiff penalties on the employers, including imprisonment, and payment of significant financial compensation".
Saudi officials have not commented on the report.
'Impunity'
Human Rights Watch says Ms Miyati was treated in a Riyadh hospital in March 2005 for gangrene, malnourishment and other injuries.
All charges against Ms Miyati's male employer were dropped early in the investigation, Human Rights Watch says.
On Monday a Riyadh judge found the female employer not guilty, despite her earlier admission and "compelling physical evidence", the group says.
A prior Saudi judgement, subsequently overturned, had seen Ms Miyati convicted of falsely accusing her employers and sentenced to 79 lashes.
