Human Rights Watch

Bosniaks gathered on Thursday at the iron ore mining complex in Omarska to mark the anniversary of the day in August 1992 when the notorious detention camp was closed down.

Around 6,000 Bosniak and Croat men and women were detained at Omarska and some 700 of them were killed in the three months during which the camp operated at the beginning of the Bosnian war.

Human Rights Watch condemned as an "apparent war crime" on July 28 a Saudi-led air raid in Yemen last week that it said killed at least 65 civilians in residential compounds.

Human Rights Watch on July 20 accused Israel of ?abusive arrests? of Palestinian children as young as 11 and of using threats to force them to sign confessions.

A leading international rights group on July 15 accused Syria's main Kurdish militia of continued violations of the ban on child soldiers, despite some progress to stop using boys and girls under the age of 18 in fighting.

More than 50 child soldiers recruited by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria have been killed since the beginning of this year, a monitoring group said July 15.    

Beijing effectively bans Uighurs and Tibetans from obtaining passports, Human Rights Watch said on July 13, amid a surge in Chinese tourists travelling abroad.

Turkey has condemned Thailand for forcibly returning to China nearly 100 Uighur migrants who were sheltering in Thailand after escaping alleged Chinese oppression in Xinjiang in the wake of a violent attack against Bangkok's consulate in Istanbul over the deportations.

President Juan Manuel Santos has replaced Colombia's top military leaders, days after the release of a Human Rights Watch report alleging complicity by the country's top brass in extrajudicial killings of civilians.
 

Raif Badawi, a 31-year-old Saudi blogger and the creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and flogged in public 50 times simply for blogging about free speech.

He has 950 more lashes, which have been postponed due to Badawi?s poor health.

Dozens of senior Colombian army officers implicated in the killing of 3,000 civilians falsely claimed to be rebels a decade ago have risen through the ranks and are escaping punishment for their roles in one of Latin America's worst atrocities, Human Rights Watch said June 24.