Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch mourns the death of Robin Munro, who joined Human Rights Watch in 1989 as China researcher and Hong Kong office director. His eyewitness reporting on the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square in Beijing helped the world understand and respond to the Chinese government’s violent repression. Munro passed away in Taiwan on May 19, 2021. While working at Human Rights Watch from 1989-1998, Munro did pathbreaking research on China’s psychiatric abuse of political prisoners, abuses in orphanages, and organ harvesting of convicts. He ...