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Iranian regime weaponizes judicial systems against Baha'i minority, Human Rights Watch claims

The Baha'i International Community reported that the occurance persecutory acts against Baha’i between July and November 2025 was three times higher than the same time period in 2024.

Members of the Baha'i faith hold flowers as they demonstrate outside a state security court during a hearing in the case of a fellow Baha'i man charged with seeking to establish a base for the community in Yemen, in the country's capital Sanaa April 3, 2016
Buildings and streets of Jenin refugee camp, November 19, 2025.

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in West Bank expulsions

A child sits holding a sponge at a car wash, amid ongoing fuel shortages caused by a blockade imposed by al Qaeda-linked insurgents in early September, in Bamako, Mali, October 31, 2025.

Mali army killed 31 villagers in attacks on insurgent area, HRW says

AN IDF APC enters Syria at the ceasefire line (illustrative).

HRW accuses Israel of war crimes in Syria over forced displacement


Israel’s Supreme Court rules HRW Director can be deported over BDS

Human Rights Watch is weighing an appeal to a larger judicial panel of the verdict by a three judges. If not appeal is lodged, Shakir could be asked to leave the country within 20-day.

Omar Shakir from Human Rights Watch

Algeria shuts down Protestant churches, police arrest worshipers

“This last notification is not the result of coincidence, but a provocative response to the sit-in of October 9 in front of the Bejaia Province headquarters,” said EPA head Pastor Salah Chalah.

A Protestant Berber woman sings during a mass at a church in the Berber capital of Tizi Ouzou, 100 km (60 miles) east of Algeria's capital Algiers, October 2, 2010. Under Algerian law, all faiths are allowed to practise if they meet certain conditions. But there has been tension between the Christia

Omar Shakir's lawyer: Let new Israeli gov't make deportation decision

Case pits protecting free speech-vs-combating BDS

Omar Shakir from Human Rights Watch

HRW head says no one questions Israel's right to exist as democratic state

Roth added that "Israel can define itself any way it wants. Lots of governments define themselves in nationalist terms."

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth

High Court changes tune about quick hearing to expel HRW official

Omar Shakir has been fighting government efforts to expel him for his alleged support of boycotting Israel for over 14 months.

Human Rights Watch representative Omar Shakir

Facing realism in Europe

These options can be summarized under three major policy prescriptions along which a new immigration policy would have to be designed.

European Union flags flutter as people take part in the demonstration "One Europe for all", a rally against nationalism across the European Union, in Vienna, Austria, May 19, 2019.

Jewish founder of Human Rights Watch Robert Bernstein dies at 96

"Robert Bernstein has devoted his life to the active defense of freedom of expression and to the protection of victims of injustice and abuse throughout the world."

Bobby Bernstein

Human Rights Watch: Egyptian forces commit war crimes in Sinai

The report accused security forces of arbitrary arrests including children, disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings, collective punishment and forced evictions.

An Egyptian military vehicle is seen on the highway in northern Sinai, Egypt, May 25, 2015.

After Lara Alqasem, how will Supreme Court rule on deporting HRW official?

The question is doubly complex because it comes after the Supreme Court’s October decision blocking the deportation of student Lara Alqasem.

American student Lara Alqasem (center) appears in Israel’s Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 17

Court orders deportation of HRW official; NGO vows appeal to Supreme Court

In June, the court heard HRW lawyer Michael Sfard argue that the deportation was obfuscating the fact that the government was not really after “the ‘little satan,’” Shakir, “but the ‘big satan’ HRW."

Human Rights Watch representative Omar Shakir