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Italy Letter to the Italian Government Regarding the Expulsion of Sami Ben Khemais Essid I am writing to express Human Rights Watch’s deep concern over the expulsion of Sami Ben Khemais Essid to Tunisia. Essid was expelled on the evening of June 3, 2008, from Fiumicino airport, under an expedited procedure for national security removals. Essid had been scheduled to appear in a Milan courtroom that day for a preliminary hearing on terrorism charges. It is our understanding he is now in Mornaguia prison pending retrial for a series of absentia convictions in Tunisia. At this writing we do not have information about his physical well-being. June 9, 2008 Letter Also available in 
Printer friendly version Italy: Halt Expulsion of Tunisian at Risk of Torture Respect European Court of Human Rights Ruling Italy should immediately halt all efforts to expel Essid Sami Ben Khemais to Tunisia, because of its established record of torture, Human Rights Watch said today. At the time of writing on June 3, 2008, Ben Khemais, a Tunisian national facing terrorism charges in Italy, was being held at Fiumicino airport outside Rome and could be put on a plane to Tunis at any time. June 3, 2008 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version US/Italy: Italian Court Challenges CIA Rendition Program Rome Should Seek Extradition of 26 Americans in Cleric’s Abduction The alleged kidnappers of an Egyptian cleric in 2003 will go on trial in Milan on April 16 in what is the first ever legal challenge to the CIA’s controversial rendition program, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged the newly-elected Italian government to seek the extradition of 26 American CIA agents implicated in the abduction. April 16, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version European Court of Human Rights Reaffirms the Absolute Prohibition on Return to Torture The European Court of Human Rights today reaffirmed that the ban on deporting people to countries where they are at risk of torture or ill-treatment is absolute and unconditional. February 28, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Italy: Expulsion Decree Targets Romanians Parliament Should Improve Safeguards and Allow for In-Country Appeals The Italian government’s targeting of Romanians, and particularly those of Roma origin, for expulsion violates Italy’s international human rights obligations, Human Rights Watch said today. November 8, 2007 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Italy: Deportation Order Puts Tunisian at Risk of Torture Tunisia’s Promises of Humane Treatment Cannot Be Trusted The Italian government should halt its efforts to deport a national security suspect back to Tunisia, where he faces the risk of torture and abuse despite the Tunisian government’s unreliable promises of humane treatment, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Italian government. September 27, 2007 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Letter to Italian Government Regarding Nassim Saadi's Deportation and the Use of Diplomatic Assurances Human Rights Watch is disturbed by the Italian authorities’ reliance upon diplomatic assurances from Tunisia to justify Saadi’s deportation as being consistent with its human rights obligations. Our research strongly indicates that assurances against torture and ill-treatment do not provide an effective safeguard for persons at risk of such abuse upon return. Such assurances are inherently unreliable and practically unenforceable. Their growing use in the Council of Europe region and elsewhere threatens to undermine the ban on torture and the nonrefoulement obligation. September 26, 2007 Letter Also available in
Italy: Urge Sudan to Arrest War Crime Suspects Prime Minister, Pope Should Press Visiting Sudanese President Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and Pope Benedict XVI should call on the government of Sudan to fulfill its legal duty to arrest International Criminal Court suspects when Sudan’s President Omar El Bashir visits today, Human Rights Watch said today. September 14, 2007 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Italy: Encourage Sudan to Cooperate with the ICC Letter to the Italian Prime Minister Human Rights Watch raises serious concerns about the Sudanese government’s failure to comply with its obligations to execute arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). September 13, 2007 Letter Printer friendly version Council of Europe: Secret CIA Prisons Confirmed The Central Intelligence Agency secretly operated illegal prisons for terrorism suspects in multiple locations in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005, according to a report released today by the Council of Europe, a European intergovernmental human rights body. June 8, 2007 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity The European Parliament should condemn European complicity in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program of “extraordinary renditions” and secret detention of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today. February 12, 2007 Press Release Printer friendly version CIA Abuses: EU Report Condemns European Complicity Report Stresses Further Need to Investigate Secret Detention and Rendition to Torture A new report by the European Parliament’s Temporary Committee on illegal CIA activity in Europe is a powerful indictment of European governments’ complicity in CIA abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. November 29, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version Europe: Pending Questions on CIA Activities in Europe Council of Europe Deadline Is Today; European Parliament to Begin Hearings European governments must provide detailed information about their participation in or knowledge of the Central Intelligence Agency’s unlawful detention and transfer of terrorist suspects. February 21, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version Human Rights Watch Policy Paper The Meaning Of "the Interests Of Justice" In Article 53 Of The Rome Statute Under Article 53 of the Rome Statute, the prosecutor has important responsibility to decide “whether to initiate an investigation,” and, upon investigation, to decide “that there is not a sufficient basis for a prosecution.” In making these decisions, the Rome Statute states that a factor to be considered by the prosecutor is “the interests of justice.” The prosecutor’s decision regarding the “interests of justice,” however, is subject to review by the Pre-Trial Chamber. Because the phrase “interests of justice” is not precisely defined, Human Rights Watch believes it is important that the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) establish guidelines as to how the phrase should be construed. July 5, 2005 Special Focus Iraq: Shooting of Italian Civilians by U.S. Forces The killing of an Italian secret service agent and the shooting of an Italian journalist in Baghdad highlights how civilian casualties by U.S. forces, at checkpoints and elsewhere, are disturbingly common in Iraq. March 7, 2005 Graphic Thailand: Anti-Drug Campaign Reaches New Low More Than 50 Organizations Sign Letter of Protest Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s announcement of a brutal new phase in Thailand’s “war on drugs” raises fears of widespread human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. In an open letter to the committee that recently gave an “International Forgiveness Award” to the prime minister for his government’s treatment of drug users, Human Rights Watch and more than 50 other organizations called on the committee to strip Thaksin of the award. October 5, 2004 Press Release Printer friendly version Letter of Protest to Istituzione Perdonanza Celestiniana In an open letter to the committee that recently gave an “International Forgiveness Award” to the prime minister for his government’s treatment of drug users, Human Rights Watch and more than 50 other organizations called on the committee to strip Thaksin of the award. October 4, 2004 Letter Also available in
Printer friendly version Trafficking in Italy While attending a conference in Rome on the "Human Rights Dimensions of Trafficking in Persons," Widney Brown, advocacy director for Human Rights Watch's Women's Rights division, met with officials from the Italian Foreign Ministry to express concern regarding reports HRW has received of the summary deportation of victims of trafficking from Africa to Nigeria, regardless of their country of origin. June 1, 2002 Advocacy Impact Types and Manufacture rs of Remotely Delivered Antivehicle Mines Human Rights Watch Fact Sheet, December 2001 (Prepared for the CCW Review Conference, December 2001, Geneva, Switzerland) Twelve countries are reported to have manufactured at least twenty-seven different types of remotely delivered antivehicle mines: Bulgaria , China, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Poland, Russia, United States, and Yugoslavia. Except Iran, all of these countries are party to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). December 1, 2001 Campaign Document Argentina: Decision Not To Extradite Astiz Condemned Human Rights Watch today condemned the decision of the government of Fernando De la Rúa in Argentina not to extradite former naval officer Alfredo Astiz, an intelligence agent during the country's period of military rule. August 15, 2001 Press Release Printer friendly version |
 
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