أرشيف الوسم : HRW

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said that Islamic State (IS) extremists had tortured teenagers from Syrian town of Kobane for six months in captivity. According to the rights group, 153 school-going children were kidnapped by the IS in May while they were returning to Kobane after sitting for exams in Aleppo; it released 25 of the hostages late …

Advocacy Group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said that extremists from the Islamic State (IS) have been using clutter munitions in at least one location in war-ravaged Syria, and that the Syrian regime also continues to use the extensively banned weapon. The New York-based group cited reports and photographic evidence from local Kurdish officials, and said that IS extremists …

The Australian immigration department has been desperately trying to repatriate traumatized Syrians seeking asylum in Australia detained in offshore detention centers, British daily the Guardian reported on Tuesday. Several emails it obtained under Australia’s freedom of information laws suggested that the Syrians detained had told immigration officials that they will be killed if they go back to Syria, but the …

International rights group Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Jordan of forcibly deporting and refusing entry to Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria, and called it a defiance of Jordan’s international obligations. The New York-based group released its report in Amman, and said that Jordan has officially banned the entry of Palestinian refugees since January 2013 and since mid-2012 has forcibly deported …

Fighters in Syria have held 54 children and women as hostage for a year, rights group Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, and urged that they should be freed. It also warned that holding civilians could amount to a war crime. The New York-based rights group said that the group of 54 was captured from the province of Latakia in …

On Monday, international rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of killing civilians in Gaza during their attempts to flee an afflicted neighborhood in the Palestinian Enclave. It also said that Israel’s actions would amount to a war crime. The HRW report cited testimonials from Palestinians who were able to get out of the town of Khuza’a near Khan …

On Tuesday, New York-based Human Rights Watch called for the UN Security Council to stop the supply of weapons to the Syrian regime, which it said was launching attacks with “barrel bombs”. The Human Rights Watch said that it had documented 85 aerial attacks by the Syrian regime against the opposition in areas they control, like the Aleppo province, since …