Hanan Salah

Are European Football Clubs Sportswashing Libyan Abuses? On the evening of October 10, two European football giants played a friendly match amid much fanfare in the newly renovated Benghazi International Stadium, to the spectators’ delight. The catch? The m...

This month, Altético Madrid and Inter Milan played a friendly match in Benghazi International Stadium, hosted by Khalifa Hiftar, commander of the abusive LAAF. Sports clubs should be wary of burnishing the image of human rights-abusing states and entities. hrw.org/news/2025/10...

BLUE JAYS ARE WORLD SERIES BOUND.

It’s the first time since 1993 Toronto is headed to the big stage.

Human Rights Commissioner O’Flaherty’s visit to Germany: focus on migration, freedoms of assembly and expression, antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 21/10/2025

2nd time EU human rights Commissioner rebukes Germany for restrictions on protests & excessive use of force by law enforcement incl. in Berlin, during protests on Gaza hostilities.

Utterly shameful for EU member state to be criticised as a serial violator of human rights
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Saudi Arabia: Spate of Executions of Child Offenders Saudi authorities on October 20, 2025, executed a man convicted of alleged crimes committed as a child.

🚩Yesterday Saudi authorities executed Abdullah al-Derazi for alleged crimes committed as a child.

Saudi authorities reached two horrific milestones: the 300th execution of 2025 & the 2nd execution of a person accused of committing crimes as a child. @hrw.org

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Les Marocain·ne·s revendiquent leurs droits et réclament la fin de la corruption.

Le roi Mohamed VI va-t-il tenir sa promesse de créer des emplois et d'améliorer les systèmes de santé et d'éducation? Et son gouvernement enquêter sur l'usage de la force létale par la police contre les manifestants?

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Human Rights Watch reject donations from Saudi festival comedians The two-week entertainment event has been criticised due to the Saudi government's alleged human rights abuses. Several comedians who attended have offered to donate part of their performance fees from the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Here's everything you need to know.

Human Rights Watch reject donations from Saudi festival comedians

Morocco: Protests Met with Repression, Violence Moroccan authorities have cracked down on youth-led protests demanding sweeping reforms to public services, resulting in deaths and mass arrests.

Morocco's youth have clear-cut demands for better healthcare, education & end to corruption. If the government can fund state-of-the art stadiums, it can afford to fund its healthcare.

Calls for reform should not be met with repression, lethal force @hrw.org
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المغرب: الاحتجاجات تُقابَل بالقمع والعنف السلطات المغربية قمعت احتجاجات قادها الشباب للمطالبة بإصلاحات شاملة للخدمات العامة، مما أسفر عن وقوع قتلى واعتقالات جماعية.

إذا كان بإمكان حكومة #المغرب البذخ على بناء ملعب كرة، فهي قادرة على تمويل نظامها الصحي
#GenZ212
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Morocco: Protests Met with Repression, Violence Moroccan authorities have cracked down on youth-led protests demanding sweeping reforms to public services, resulting in deaths and mass arrests.

Morocco's youth have clear-cut demands for better healthcare, education & end to corruption. If the government can fund state-of-the art stadiums, it can afford to fund its healthcare.

Calls for reform should not be met with repression, lethal force @hrw.org
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رئيسة اللجنة الدولية: الإخلاء الجماعي لمدينة غزة غير قابل للتنفيذ والاستيعاب

الصليب الأحمر الدولي يعلن أن من "المستحيل" إخلاء مدينة #غزة بشكل آمن
https://bit.ly/4679DnQ

The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords

Great profile of Mansour bin Zayed, the owner of Manchester City, who has been key to covert UAE military support for Haftar in Libya and Hemedti in Sudan - and whose Mubadala wealth fund recently announced "it would use a Trump family crypto venture to make a $2 billion transaction".

Together with our partners, we urge all #EU Member States & the @ec.europa.eu to:

❌halt arms transfers
❌sanction those responsible for ongoing atrocity crimes
❌suspend the trade agreement with Israel

Under the Genocide Convention, EU states are bound to act.
Learn more: bit.ly/4eapcyB

Joint Statement on the EU-Israel Association Agreement Review The undersigned human rights and humanitarian organizations and trade unions urge the EU to ensure that the ongoing review of Israel’s compliance with article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement ...

Ahead of EU foreign ministers meeting, 110+ NGOs & trade unions urge suspension of the #EU - #Israel Association Agreement

Under the #Genocide Convention, EU states are bound to act. Signatories "appalled" it took so long for the EU to launch review of the agreement:
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Hundreds of thousands have marched this weekend in Paris, The Hague, Brussels and elsewhere across Europe for a cause that should enjoy broad societal consensus: to stop deliberate starvation, ethnic cleansing, genocide.

But in Germany, such broad-based mobilization remains wholly unthinkable.

Sudan: Armed Forces Airstrikes in South Darfur The Sudanese Armed Forces used unguided air-dropped bombs to carry out attacks in residential and commercial neighborhoods in Nyala, South Darfur in early February 2025, Human Rights Watch said today....

New @hrw.org research: Airstrikes by the Sudanese Armed Forces using unguided bombs killed and injured scores of civilians, including children, in residential areas of Nyala, South Darfur, in February. Five strikes in 40 minutes on Feb 3 alone. www.hrw.org/preview-link...

ظُلم مُتأصّل يوثق التقرير الصادر في 35 صفحة، بعنوان"ظلم مُتأصل: ضرورة الإصلاح الشامل للعدالة في ليبيا"، مدى الحاجة الملحة إلى إصلاح التشريعات البالية والقمعية، وانعدام حقوق المحاكمة العادلة، وتفشي انتهاكات الإجراء...

"ظلم مُتأصل: ضرورة الإصلاح الشامل للعدالة في #ليبيا" – تقرير جديد لهيومن رايتس وتتش يوثق مدى الحاجة الملحة إلى إصلاح التشريعات البالية والقمعية، وانعدام حقوق المحاكمة العادلة، وتفشي انتهاكات الإجراءات القانونية الواجبة
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Libya: Barriers to Justice Libya’s fragmented justice sector is suppressing fundamental freedoms and obstructing accountability for abuses.

Libya's fragmented & polarised justice sector suppresses fundamental freedoms, obstructs accountability.

Authorities should urgently overhaul judiciary, reform repressive legislation, end military trials of civilians, arrest ICC suspects.

New @hrw.org report:
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Excellent review and analysis of the recent fighting and shifting power dynamics in #Tripoli #Libya

@wlacher.bsky.social @emadbadi.bsky.social

1/ Russia’s escalating attacks on Ukrainian civilians in 2025 have killed more people than in the same period in 2024.
@hrw’s new report documents unlawful strikes that may amount to war crimes. States must act. #Ukraine #WarCrimes www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

#Libya: Critical evidence of serious crimes should be secured and preserved for future accountability.

Judicial authorities should urgently secure documents & other evidence found in Tripoli prisons or bases used by the Stability Support Apparatus SSA, or other disbanded bodies.

#Libya: Quasi state forces used live ammunition to quell large-scale anti-government protests, instead, they should ensure right to peaceful protest

Use of live ammunition without imminent threat to life or risk of serious injury violates international human rights standards

Libya: Civilians Caught in Militia Clashes Rival armed groups and quasi-state forces in Libya failed to protect civilians during clashes in Tripoli last week, leading to civilian deaths and damage to homes.

#Libya: Armed groups and quasi state-forces embroiled in turf wars, failed to protect civilians from harm during Tripoli clashes, leading to civilian casualties & destruction of objects

Judicial authorities should urgently investigate.
New from @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

Libya: Civilians Caught in Militia Clashes Rival armed groups and quasi-state forces in Libya failed to protect civilians during clashes in Tripoli last week, leading to civilian deaths and damage to homes.

“Civilians caught in the Tripoli fighting are once again bearing the brunt of reckless, unaccountable armed groups who show utter disregard for the lives of people when they fire heavy weapons in residential areas.” - @hanansalah.bsky.social on #Libya
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Granular analysis of events unfolding in Tripoli, Libya.
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Why Asian and Mexican immigrants, moments away from being deported to Libya, never left the U.S. The immigrants were woken up at 2:30 a.m. and boarded on a bus to wait for hours outside a military plane in Texas. They were then sent back to solitary confinement.

More details emerging on reports of planned US deportations to Libya: NBC reporting 13 migrants were woken up in the middle of the night and waited on a bus by a military plane for hours until a judge blocked the deportation www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya The United States should not forcibly transfer migrants to Libya, where inhumane detention conditions are well-documented, including torture, ill treatment, sexual assault, and unlawful killings.

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya
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The Trump administration may be poised to deport an unknown number of detained migrants to Libya.

The US should not forcibly transfer migrants to Libya, where inhumane detention conditions are well-documented.

Read more: bit.ly/3GNqP8Q

The EU has simply abandoned human rights in Tunisia 37 Tunisian lawyers and opposition figures have been given prison sentences of up to 66 years for conspiracy against state security and terrorism, for offences such as meeting with European diplomats ...

The EU has been shamefully silent on escalating repression in Tunisia, as authorities weaponize arbitrary detention and abusive prosecution. Tunisians are paying a steep price for the EU’s singular focus on migration and abandonment of human rights. euobserver.com/migration/ar...

No Escape from Hell This report documents severe overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, malnutrition, and lack of adequate health care. Human Rights Watch found violent abuse by guards in four official detention centers in...

This report looks at detention conditions of migrants & refugees in Libya. Good overview of human rights concerns, including torture, ill treatment, food & water deprivation, exploitation, sexual assault, arbitrary detention.

Conditions have deteriorated since then.
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