(Moscow) - The de facto authorities of South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, should promptly investigate the vicious attack on a civic activist and hold those responsible to account, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Amsterdam) - The Dutch government should immediately halt all plans to return Somalis to war-torn Somalia, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Vienna) - Healthy Options Project Skopje (HOPS) is the recipient of the 2010 international Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch announced today.
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(Moscow) - The Russian courts should quash a finding of guilt against a prominent human rights defender, Yuri Samodurov, former head of the Andrei Sakharov Museum, and a colleague, Andrei Erofeev, for inciting religious hatred in a 2007 art exhibit, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Washington, DC) - The Italian government should immediately offer to take into Italy at least 11 Eritreans it had previously forced back to Libya and who are now detained there and threatened with deportation back to Eritrea, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Brussels) - The Bosnian Serb wartime general, Ratko Mladic, one of the main architects of the genocide at Srebrenica, remains at large even as victims' families gather to mark the 15th anniversary of the killings, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Osh) - A planned independent international commission of inquiry into the recent violence in southern Kyrgyzstan should investigate all aspects of the violence, including the role of government forces, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Berlin) - The German government's decision on July 7, 2010, to accept two Guantanamo Baydetainees for resettlement is an important step in closing down the prison, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(London) - The new UK coalition government should repeal an abusive counterterrorism power that has led to hundreds of thousands of people being stopped and searched without reasonable suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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(New York) - The Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) should deploy a police mission in southern Kyrgyzstan that is large enough to reach all areas affected by the recent violence, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(London) - France, Germany, and the United Kingdom use foreign intelligence obtained under torture in the fight against terrorism, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
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(New York) - The European Union should set benchmarks for human rights improvements with the Chinese government during this week's EU-China human rights dialogue, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(New York) - Newly uncovered evidence of vicious attacks during the massive violence in Kyrgyzstan on June 10 to 14, 2010, underscores the need for an international inquiry into the mayhem, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch said the international inquiry should supplement the Kyrgyz government's investigation.
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(New York) - Kyrgyz authorities should ensure that a detained human rights activist is allowed to exercise his full due process rights and should take immediate measures for his safety, Human Rights Watch said today. A lawyer who visited 60-year-old Azimzhan Askarov on June 22, 2010, said he bore marks of ill-treatment.
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(Osh) - Kyrgyz troops wounded at least 20 people, 2 of whom died, early June 21 during a security operation in the predominantly Uzbek village of Nariman in southern Kyrgyzstan, Human Rights Watch reported. The operation followed the removal of barricades erected by the residents to protect the village.
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(Geneva) - The United Nations Human Rights Council took positive steps to respond to human rights emergencies in Kyrgyzstan and Somalia in its session that ended on June 18, 2010, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Osh) - Kyrgyz troops wounded at least 20 people, two of whom died, during a security operation on June 21, 2010, in the predominantly Uzbek village of Nariman in southern Kyrgyzstan, Human Rights Watch said today. The operation followed the removal of barricades erected by the residents to protect the village.
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(Moscow) - Russian authorities should investigate the beating of a human rights lawyer by police in Dagestan and bring the perpetrators to justice, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Moscow) - The Russian authorities should immediately drop the criminal slander case against Oleg Orlov, the head of one of Russia's leading rights groups, Human Rights Watch said today. The charges stem from Orlov's statement suggesting that the Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov, was responsible for the July 2009 murder of the human rights advocate Natalia Estemirova.
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Brussels - The European Union Mission in Kosovo should set an independent inquiry into a Kosovo police operation on June 12, 2010, in which riot police appeared to have used excessive force, Human Rights watch said today. The operation began as an attempt to arrest a political activist, Albin Kurti, leader of the Self-Determination Movement (Vetevendosje).
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(Osh) - Residents of Kyrgyzstan's southern city of Osh are being brutally attacked, beaten, and raped, despite government claims that the situation has stabilized, Human Rights Watch said today. The reports come from Human Rights Watch researchers, who visited several neighborhoods in Osh on June 16 and June 17, interviewing witnesses and documenting human rights violations.
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(Brussels) - The European Union Justice and Home Affairs Council conclusions on unaccompanied migrant children focus too much on how to send them back to their countries of origin and too little on how to guarantee their safety, Human Rights Watch said today. The conclusions were adopted on June 3, 2010.
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(Osh) – The United Nations Security Council should urgently take measures to help the Kyrgyz government stop the spiraling violence in Osh and ensure people are protected, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Osh) - The government of Kyrgyzstan should take immediate measures to ensure safety for people attempting to flee unchecked violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, Human Rights Watch said today.
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