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Hanan Salah

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Associate Middle East and North Africa Director, Human Rights Watch "Turn the Volume Up."

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Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Latest report of the UN Panel of Experts on Libya finally out. Notable for its explicit focus on key figures (incl. Ibrahim Dabeiba and Saddam Haftar) and massive fraud in the oil and fuel sectors. Also, some hard facts on EU naval op IRINI's collusion in an arms embargo violation last summer. 1/2
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
NEW: UN Security Council resolution on new framework to deal with impasse around Morocco’s claims to Western Sahara does not ensure that the right to self-determination for the territory’s peoples is upheld and is consistent with international law @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
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UN: Western Sahara Peoples’ Self-Determination at Risk
A United Nations Security Council resolution on the dispute around Morocco’s claims to Western Sahara does not ensure that a new framework to end the long-standing impasse on the issue upholds the rig...
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Human Rights Watch en français @hrw-fr.hrw.org · 25/03/2026
"35 ans après que le Conseil de sécurité a convenu de la tenue d’un référendum afin de résoudre la situation au Sahara occidental, l’opportunisme politique risque de prendre le dessus sur le droit du peuple sahraoui à l’autodétermination." - @hanansalah.bsky.social
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“Njeem’s reported arrest in Libya is a chance for authorities to demonstrate a genuine commitment to justice by cooperating with the ICC.” - @hanansalah.bsky.social @hrw.org calls on #Libya to do what Italy wouldn't: surrender an #ICC suspect to The Hague: www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
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Libya: Surrender International Criminal Court Suspect
Libyan authorities should urgently surrender Osama Elmasry Njeem to the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he is wanted for serious crimes.
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Libyan authorities should urgently surrender Osama Elmasry Njeem to the @IntlCrimCourt where he is wanted for murder, torture, rape. For too long, those responsible for grave abuses in Libya have been allowed to evade accountability. Time to flip the script. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
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Libya: Surrender International Criminal Court Suspect
Libyan authorities should urgently surrender Osama Elmasry Njeem to the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he is wanted for serious crimes.
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency, and rights but failed to prevent continued violence and atrocities. Syrian authorities should credibly address outstanding concerns around security sector reform www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
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Syria: One Year Since Assad’s Fall
Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency and rights but failed to prevent continued violence and atrocities.
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Job Alert: We are hiring for a Tunisia/Libya research assistant to support our North Africa team. application deadline is December 1. @hrw.org job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...
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Research Assistant, Libya and Tunisia
Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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...
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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...
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 21/10/2025
BLUE JAYS ARE WORLD SERIES BOUND. It’s the first time since 1993 Toronto is headed to the big stage.
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 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 www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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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
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Joey Shea @joeyshea.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🚩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 www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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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.
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Human Rights Watch en français @hrw-fr.hrw.org · 17/10/2025
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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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Euronews @euronews.com · 16/10/2025
Human Rights Watch reject donations from Saudi festival comedians
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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.
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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 www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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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.
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HRW_AR @hrwarabic.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
إذا كان بإمكان حكومة #المغرب البذخ على بناء ملعب كرة، فهي قادرة على تمويل نظامها الصحي #GenZ212 bit.ly/47d1qPq
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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.
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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 www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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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.
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HRW_AR @hrwarabic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
الصليب الأحمر الدولي يعلن أن من "المستحيل" إخلاء مدينة #غزة بشكل آمن bit.ly/4679DnQ
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رئيسة اللجنة الدولية: الإخلاء الجماعي لمدينة غزة غير قابل للتنفيذ والاستيعاب
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Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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".
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The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 19/06/2025
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
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Claudio Francavilla @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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: hrw.org/news/2025/06...
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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 ...
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Wolfram Lacher @wlacher.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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.
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Jean-Baptiste Gallopin @jbgallopin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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...
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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....
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HRW_AR @hrwarabic.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"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 www.hrw.org/ar/report/20...
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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...
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
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Libya: Barriers to Justice
Libya’s fragmented justice sector is suppressing fundamental freedoms and obstructing accountability for abuses.
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Excellent review and analysis of the recent fighting and shifting power dynamics in #Tripoli #Libya @wlacher.bsky.social @emadbadi.bsky.social
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Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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...
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
#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...
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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.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
“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 www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
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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.
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Granular analysis of events unfolding in Tripoli, Libya. recommend reading ⬇️
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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...
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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.
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Alison Leal Parker @lealparker.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
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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.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 09/05/2025
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
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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...
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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 ...
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Journalists, analysts, officials, interested people: if you are looking into the attempted forced deportation of people from the US to Libya, here's @hrw.org extensive documentation of the human rights situation in Libya and horrific conditions of migrants: www.hrw.org/middle-east/...
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Libya | Country Page | World | Human Rights WatchPlay VideoPlay VideoPlay VideoHuman Rights Watch
Deep divisions persisted between Libyan parties while a fragile economic situation confounded efforts to reach a political settlement. Two rival authorities in the eastern and western parts of the cou...
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