Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is the author of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights.
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Aryeh Neier
Commentaries by Aryeh Neier
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Less of an Ass
PARIS – “If the law supposes that,” says Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist, “the law is a ass – a idiot.” For decades, Britain’s libel laws had bee…
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Turkey’s Imprisoned Press
PARIS – According to two pro-government newspapers in Turkey, Star and Yeni Akit, as well as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself, th…
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Grounding Syria’s Killers
NEW YORK – As Syria has descended into all-out civil war, much of the worsening slaughter has been attributable to aerial bombardments of ur…
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Freedom, Blasphemy, and Violence
PARIS – Violent attacks on US diplomatic outposts across North Africa and the Middle East have once again raised the question of how to resp…
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Arab Justice for Arab Violence
NEW YORK – For months now, it has been clear that no peaceful, even satisfactory, resolution of the conflict in Syria is possible without ex…
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The Goldstone Reversal
NEW YORK – Justice Richard Goldstone was condemned by many apologists for Israel’s human-rights record for his conclusion that Israel intent…
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Is Blasphemy Hate Speech?
NEW YORK – The assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province in Pakistan and an outspoken critic of religious extremism, h…
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Light in Congo’s Darkness?
NEW YORK – Perhaps no country on earth – not even Iraq, Afghanistan, or Sudan – has suffered more gravely from armed conflict in the past de…
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A President in the Dock
NEW YORK – In a way, the stir aroused by the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir f…
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A Universal Revolution
NEW YORK – The most important contribution of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly 60 y…
Turkey’s Imprisoned Press
Hll Dlgz: Are journalists immune to criminal acts? Are they angels who never commits any crime? The problem is that in Turkey, press is like a wild-jungle.. There are no ethical principles, no responsibility in…
Turkey’s Imprisoned Press
Mehmet Suzuk: I wonder when the rest of the world will stop calling Turkey as an Islamic Country. One should understand that Turkey is a Secular Country with high Muslim population. There is a big difference betwee…