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Bill Frelick

@billfrelick

Refugee and Migrant Rights Division Director at Human Rights Watch

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UN experts call on #Bhutan king to release 32 persons imprisoned for decades after protesting mistreatment of Nepali-speaking minority, express concern the detainees were “severely tortured, both to extract confessions and to punish them.” UN Human Rights ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

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Haitians are suffering horrific abuses. Its security situation is in free fall. The MSS--Multinational Security Support Mission--should be bolstered; The MSS should be transformed into a full-fledged UN mission ASAP. Nathalye Cotrino Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2025/04/1…

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The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights - NPR—“Forcibly returning a refugee or asylum-seeker to a home country where they may face torture or persecution will no longer be highlighted.” apple.news/Afn5usfmGRcqp1…

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The Cambodian & Thai govts have engaged in transnational repression to silence dissent by facilitating assaults, abductions, enforced disappearances, and forced returns to persecution of their own citizens living outside their country. Elaine Pearson @HRW hrw.org/news/2025/04/2…

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NEW: The US government forcibly expelled 299 migrants to Panama between February 12 and 15, 2025. None of them were from there. In a new report, HRW documents the mass expulsions:

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Appalling to see the Trump Admin strong-arm a fractured country like Libya w/ a well-documented history of horrific detention conditions & mistreatment of migrants to take non-Libyan migrants expelled from the US. Please protest & keep this from happening. hrw.org/news/2025/05/0…

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My thoughts on the arrival yesterday of white South Africans under the US refugee resettlement program that has been shut down for all refugees worldwide except Afrikaners: pbs.org/newshour/show/…

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My interview on Al Jazeera about the contrast between the Trump administration welcome for White South Africans as refugees and its slamming of the door in the face of all other refugees worldwide: mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/3HL5yN1p…

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.Bill Frelick of @HRW called the move 2 revoke the status 4 Afghans "a betrayal of US commitments. The only justification for revoking temporary protection would be if permanent protection was being offered since Taliban rule clearly makes returns unsafe." npr.org/2025/05/13/nx-…

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The US summarily expelled 200 asylum seekers, including 81 children, from Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and other countries to Costa Rica in February. They detail the abuses they've faced in both countries in a new Human Rights Watch report out today. hrw.org/news/2025/05/2…

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Today, #Rohingya seeking asylum are still being beaten, extorted, and left to die, while the violence and repression pushing them from their homes has surged. My @HRW colleagues, @ShaynaBauchner and @NadiaHardman comment: thediplomat.com/2025/05/10-yea…