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The case could result in a binding legal order compelling Senegal to extradite Habré to Belgium if it does not prosecute him.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/01/31/haiti-duvalier-ruling-disappoints-justice">Haiti: Duvalier Ruling Disappoints Justice</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 31, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">A Haitian judge’s decision to dismiss the case against former president-for-life Jean-Claude Duvalier for grave human rights violations ignores Haiti’s international obligation to prosecute such crimes.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/01/25/no-joy-egypt">No Joy in Egypt</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 25, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>As Egypt marks the first anniversary of the Jan. 25 civilian revolt that eventually toppled the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak, there's no agreement – on how to celebrate or even whether rejoicing is in order.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/01/23/yemen-amnesty-saleh-and-aides-unlawful">Yemen: Amnesty for Saleh and Aides Unlawful</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 23, 2012</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>A new law granting amnesty to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his aides violates Yemen’s international legal obligations, Human Rights Watch said today. The sweeping law provides domestic immunity from criminal prosecution for serious international crimes such as the deadly attacks on peaceful demonstrators in 2011.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/12/30/saudi-arabia-renewed-protests-defy-ban">Saudi Arabia: Renewed Protests Defy Ban</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 30, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>Saudi reform advocates have staged several protests since mid-December, 2011, despite a categorical ban on protests issued last March.. In Riyadh, Buraida, and Qatif, security forces immediately arrested the protesters, who were peacefully protesting the detention without trial of hundreds of people held for long periods in intelligence prisons.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/12/21/libya-ensure-gaddafi-son-s-access-lawyer">Libya: Ensure Gaddafi Son’s Access to Lawyer</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 21, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>Libyan authorities appear to be holding Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in good physical conditions but should allow him immediate access to a lawyer.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/11/time-tahrir-20">Time for Tahrir 2.0</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 11, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>As heartening as Tunisia's successful election was for post-revolutionary democratic transition in the Arab world, the distressing signals from Egypt indicate it has veered off course from the freedom and democracy goals of Tahrir Square. The country's military rulers have become <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/10/egypt-retry-or-free-12000-after-unfair-military-trials">steadily more abusive</a>, while finding excuse after excuse to delay handing over power to civilian authorities. The Obama administration, the military's principal patron, stands by the generals as it did President Hosni Mubarak, with nary a public peep about the dangerous direction in which they're taking the country.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/01/un-security-council-press-cooperation-icc">UN Security Council: Press for Cooperation with ICC</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Nov 1, 2011</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Members of the United Nations Security Council should press for the arrest and surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC) of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah Sanussi by Libya or any state to which the two men might have fled. On November 2, 2011, the ICC prosecutor will brief the Security Council on his Libya investigation.</div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"> <a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news-all/710">more documents on this topic »</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div class="limiter clear-block"> <div class="clear-block"><a href="#header" class="back-to-top">Back to top</a></div> <div class="nav"> <a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/rss" class="rss-link">RSS</a> <div class="pipe-links"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/home">Home</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/our-work">Our Work</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/news">News</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/publications">Publications</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/multimedia">Multimedia</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/about">About Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120402130056/http://bit.ly/donateHRW2012">Donate</a></div> </div> <div class="footer-blocks clear-block"> <div id="block-tic-5" class="clear-block block block-tic"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="col-left clear-block"><strong class="vocab-header"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/regions">Browse by Region</a></strong><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first first"><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/africa">Africa</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/americas">Americas</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/asia">Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia">Europe/Central Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20120402130056/http://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa">Middle East/N. 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