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A debate with ‘Human Rights’ Watch

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On February 27, 2012
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Human Rights Watch

If you recall, a while back, I and a number of other campaigners and rights organisations wrote an open letter to ‘Human Rights’ Watch Director Kenneth Roth criticising his apologetic stance towards Islamism. The letter was recently published in the New York Review of Books Blog along with a response from the organisation. It’s basically […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On February 10, 2012
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Human Rights Watch, Islamism

An Open Letter to Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch Dear Kenneth Roth, In your Introduction to Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2012, “Time to Abandon the Autocrats and Embrace Rights,” you urge support for the newly elected governments that have brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Tunisia and Egypt. In your […]

A debate with ‘Human Rights’ Watch

To Human Rights Watch: Separation of religion from state is the most basic guarantee of rights