1/ After 6 months of Russian occupation, residents of Izium, Kharkiv have finally been able to speak to @hrw about the unlawful detentions and torture they were subjected to hrw.org/news/2022/10/1… 2/ Survivors described being subjected to electric shock, waterboarding, severe beatings, threats at gunpoint, and being forced to hold stress positions for extended periods by Russian forces hrw.org/news/2022/10/1…

1/ Read @hrw's latest on Russia's repeated unlawful attacks that killed and wounded civilians and damaged healthcare facilities and homes in Kharkiv, incl attacks carried out with explosive weapons with wide area effects and widely banned cluster munitions hrw.org/news/2022/08/1… 2/ During recent visits to Kharkiv @hrw documented 8 unlawful incidents of attacks that killed 12 civilians, wounded 26 others, and damaged at least 5 hospital buildings – just a fraction of attacks reported in the Kharkiv region since Russia’s full-scale invasion began

Most of the 200k ppl still in #Mariupol have been sheltering in basements to avoid death/injury but ppl with limited mobility incl. older ppl and ppl w/ disabilities could not make it down into basements once electricity was cut and elevators stopped working 1/📸Sergii Marakov Olha, 84, & Giorgi, 89, have trouble walking. They lived on the 3rd fl of their building and remained there even when an explosion next door lit their building on fire. Olha said it was terrifying to stay in their apartment during the attacks but, “we had no other choice.” 2/

@hrw captures the hellscape that residents of #Mariupol have been living in since March 2, cut off from cell phone service, food, water, electricity, and gas, and surrounded by constant shelling as the city has been besieged by Russian forces hrw.org/news/2022/03/2… The extensive use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects across the city has killed and injured an unknown number of civilians and devastated a large portion of the city, with residents telling us about bodies of ppl killed in blasts lying in the streets 4 days

Since decades Iraq has had an impunity problem, with gov and gov-linked armed forces having free reign to perpetrate abuses, some amounting to war crimes and pos. crimes against humanity without ever being held accountable hrw.org/world-report/2… Given total failure of Iraqi courts to address abuses, particularly horrific killing of 100s of protesters since Oct 2019 that have gone unpunished by new gov that came into office on a platform of accountability, a group of victims are finally taking action into their own hands

After #Moria fires in Sept #Greek gov moved 7.5K ppl to camp built on top of firing range. No soil testing was conducted prior to moving ppl there: shocking decision as firing ranges are known as commonly contaminated with lead. Check @hrw's report: hrw.org/news/2020/12/0… Lead highly toxic to humans when ingested/inhaled, particularly by kids & during pregnancy @WHO says no known safe lead exposure. It degrades slowly, sites can remain dangerous for decades. Firing range was in use from 1926 until days before camp was built hrw.org/news/2020/12/0…