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A leading rights group warned Thursday that millions of Syrians risk losing access to lifesaving aid, including food and COVID-19 vaccines, if Russia manages to block at the U.N. Security Council the use of the last remaining cross-border corridor for U.N. aid into rebel-held northwestern Syria.
BEIRUT (AP) — A leading rights group warned Thursday that millions of Syrians risk...
Homepage | News & Events | Report: Governments target critics during COVID-19 After criticizing the Venezuelan government’s response to COVID-19 in April, human rights lawyer Iván Virgüez was arrested and tortured by the illegitimate regime of Nicolás Maduro. Chinese reporter Zhang Zhan traveled to Wuhan, China, in February 2020 to report on the city’s coronavirus outbreak and was later sentenced to four years in prison. The journalist’s crime: “provoking trouble.” “I’m just documenting the truth,” Zhan said at a December hearing. “Why can’t I show the truth?” ...
share Print A new Human Rights Watch reports chronicles how more than 20 African governments are using the COVID-19 pandemic to clamp down on freedom of the media. The report finds that Zimbabwe’s government, long known for repressing dissent, is one of the worst offenders. The report released Thursday says officials in Zimbabwe are cracking down on journalists, political opponents, health workers and others who criticize the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. “In Zimbabwe, we have documented a number of incidences over the last year. And our report references three of thos...
27 minute read A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside a court, where detained citizen journalist Zhang Zhan – who reported on Wuhan’s Covid-19 outbreak – was set to go on trial, Shanghai, China, 28 December 2020, LEO RAMIREZ/AFP via Getty Images "Authorities have attacked, detained, prosecuted, and in some cases killed critics, broken up peaceful protests, closed media outlets, and enacted vague laws criminalizing speech that they claim threatens public health." This statement was originally published on hrw.org on 11 February ...