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Investigate Indiscriminate Attack in Tillabéri Region; Compensate Victims, Families An apparent Nigerien military drone strike killed at least 17 civilians, including 4 children, and injured at least 13 others at a crowded market in western Niger on January 6, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today. The strike, which also killed ....
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Authorities Should Immediately Restore Full Internet Access; Uphold Election Integrity Ugandan authorities should immediately restore internet access and refrain from imposing blanket shutdowns that undermine fundamental rights and threaten election integrity, Human Rights Watch said today. “Uganda’s constitution and international human rights obligations guarantee access to information and freedom of expression, rights that are especially […]
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Congolese Rights Body Urges ‘Masterminds’ to be Held to Account for 2017 Killings In March 2017, grainy video footage revealed that armed men walked Zaida Catalán, a 36-year-old Swede, and Michael Sharp, a 34-year-old American, through a savanna, sat them down and shot them. The brutal murders of the two United Nations investigators—and the disappearance of […]
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Decree Grants Authorities Sweeping Powers Amid Deepening Repression Niger’s military junta adopted a sweeping “general mobilization” decree on December 26. The new law grants authorities far-reaching powers to confront security threats, but at the expense of human rights. The decree establishes a broad legal framework allowing the government to summon citizens, seize goods, compel the reporting of […]
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Release Sarah Bireete; End Attacks on Critics On December 30, 2025, two weeks before Uganda’s January 15, 2026 elections, security forces raided the home of Sarah Bireete, a prominent human rights activist and government critic, and arrested her. Three days later, longer than the legally allowed 48 hours, Bireete was brought before the chief magistrates’ […]
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Mass Arbitrary Arrests; Ill-Treatment; Rape; Forced Conscription, Including Boy South Sudan’s security forces, since late June 2025, have conducted sweeping arbitrary arrests of boys, young men, and women under the guise of a crackdown on criminals. Many were held for up to a week without charge and often released only after their families paid bribes. […]
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Respect Right to Peaceful Protest; Free Arbitrarily Detained Activists Tanzanian authorities have wrongfully arrested alleged protest organizers and opposition supporters ahead of nationwide protests called for December 9, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should end its crackdown and immediately release all those arbitrarily detained. Activists have urged people to demonstrate peacefully on Tanzania’s […]
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