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monitoring work, on Somalia.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-3 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/20121208191854/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/05/us-torture-and-rendition-gaddafi-s-libya">US: Torture and Rendition to Gaddafi’s Libya</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Press release</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Sep 5, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>The United States government during the Bush administration tortured opponents of Muammar Gaddafi, then transferred them to mistreatment in Libya, according to accounts by former detainees and recently uncovered CIA and UK Secret Service documents, Human Rights Watch said in its 154-page report, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121208191854/http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/09/06/delivered-enemy-hands"><u>“Delivered into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi’s Libya.”</u></a></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/20121208191854/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/08/21/turkey-human-rights-watch-condemns-deadly-bombing-gaziantep">Turkey: Human Rights Watch Condemns Deadly Bombing in Gaziantep</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Written statement</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Aug 21, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"></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/20121208191854/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/06/29/global-140-countries-pass-counterterror-laws-911">Global: 140 Countries Pass Counterterror Laws since 9/11</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Press release</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jun 29, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">More than 140 countries have passed counterterrorism laws since the attacks of September 11, 2001, often with little regard for due process and other basic rights, Human Rights Watch said in its 112-page report, "In the Name of Security: Counterterrorism Laws Worldwide since September 11."</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/20121208191854/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/22/yemen-s-other-crises">Yemen’s Other Crises</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Commentary</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 22, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">When the Friends of Yemen group meets Wednesday in Riyadh, representatives from the US, the EU and Gulf states are likely to focus on this week’s suicide bombing in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, that killed nearly 100 soldiers and shook the fledging transition government. But international attention should not only be focused on al Qaeda and its affiliates—the need to hold human rights violators to account and a deepening humanitarian crisis should also be high on their agenda.</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/20121208191854/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/09/justice-trial">Justice on Trial</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Commentary</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 9, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>Andrea Prasow writes on Huffington Post regarding the significance of the military commission arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.</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/20121208191854/http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/04/russia-heinous-attack-civilians">Russia: Heinous Attack on Civilians</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Press release</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 4, 2012</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The fatal bombing that occurred in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, on May 3, 2012, is an abominable crime for which there is no justification.</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/20121208191854/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/12/22/what-libyan-rebels-could-teach-obama-about-rule-law">What Libyan Rebels Could Teach Obama About the Rule of Law</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Commentary</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 22, 2011</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">A Congress that cannot agree on many things that Americans want came together last week to approve something virtually no one was demanding: It decided to give the United States military the authority to arrest and imprison suspected terrorists, potentially even on U.S. soil, and to allow the government the permanent power to detain without trial people suspected of involvement in terrorism.</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/20121208191854/http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/12/01/us-president-should-veto-detainee-bill">US: President Should Veto Detainee Bill</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-tid"> <span class="field-content">Press release</span> </div> <span class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 1, 2011</span> </span> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">US President Barack Obama should hold firm on his promise to veto a bill passed by the Senate on December 1, 2011, which contains provisions on the detention of terrorism suspects that would undermine US counterterrorism efforts. 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