Press Freedom: Journalist Held for Years Without Charges in Turkey
On September 8, 2006, Fusün Erdoğan, the founder and director of the radio station Ozgur Radyo, was kidnapped, blindfolded, and thrown…
5-7-2013
Americans Deserve to See the Un-edited Report on Torture
Washington, DC – Following reports that the Central Intelligence Agency edited the screenplay for “Zero Dark Thirty,” the Oscar-nominated film…
5-7-2013
Blasphemy Laws Spark Deadly Protests in Bangladesh
NEW YORK – Human Rights First condemns this weekend’s violent protests in Bangladesh between police and Islamic hardliners in which…
5-7-2013
To Obama: Don’t Let the CIA Change the Findings of the Torture Report
The Senate Intelligence Committee has produced and adopted the most comprehensive report on the post-9/11 CIA torture program, based on…
5-6-2013
Terror Suspect Begs To Be Sent To Guantanamo to be Tried as “A Warrior”
This is a cross-post from The Huffington Post It was late last Friday afternoon when Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun,…
5-6-2013
Atrocity Supply Chain Should Be Focus of Kerry’s Moscow Trip
Washington, D.C. – Human Rights First urges Secretary of State John Kerry to use his trip to Russia this week…
5-6-2013
Why are We Still Debating Torture?
Four years after President Obama signed an executive order to ban torture, we’re still debating whether it saved American lives.…
5-3-2013
Press Freedom: Journalist Jailed, Censored for “Insulting Turkey’s President”
Last week, a court in Istanbul sentenced Ali Örnek, foreign news editor of the Communist daily newspaper, Sol, to 14…
5-3-2013