and in oakland, california, we are joined by clara long, senior researcher at human rights watch. she wrote an article earlier this week for the human rights watch blog on jakelin caal maquin's death. welcome both of you to democracy now! we're going to begin with you, clara. this story of what happened to this little indigenous guatemalan girl who traveled up from guatemala, mainly by bus with her dad, comes over the border, a remote area of new mexico, put in cbp custody, customs and border patrol yesterday. she is put on this bus pulls very quickly, she gets extremely sick. she is vomiting. her father tells, according to reports, cbp. describe this journey as you understand it. all, ik you, first of think in independent and impartial outside investigation is urgently needed. what we have now are facts as they have been reported. as you say, she got on a bus. we understand that at that point, she began to vomit into spiked a very high fever -- and spiked a very high fever. the bus continued on its way wells border patrol station to another location in new mexico that was a bit cl

conflict there who feel led side has also been accused by the un by amnesty international by human rights watch of serious human rights abuses including blocking foreign aid torturing detainees hostage taking using child soldiers shelling civilian areas that's a pretty damning pretty horrific indictment of your quote unquote government isn't it i would not call an indictment of our government or our authorities during the wars any war things happen and as i said we are open and transparent we would like to see these things and correct any mr wing's it is a that we are one hundred percent thinks happened during the war so again we are trying our best to limit any incidents that is coming from our side but you are talking about planes that are throwing hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs on civilians if you speak up. to us the national salvation of our military we are trying our best to limit any incidence of killing people or as you said we could but you won't but human rights groups don't agree with you you see things happen as if it's some sort of accident or natural disaster when amnesty h

the real problem because if you look at the real problem you actually which is that human rights abuses human rights watch which you've dealt with for macand i just produced this latest report compiled over two years which features credible reports of shocking human rights abuses by u.s. services you want to so many question the human rights for space flight very impressed based our investigation on one hundred and forty seven interviews as you know piers as you know well. shocking abuse they say that they are violations of international humanitarian law and contravene the legal obligations that you took when you signed up to human rights treaties over the last five years torture extensively documented may amount to a crime against humanity and you're telling me your democratic state we are you out torture on a daily basis and we are we are we out of them a lot of water and a good lawyer look human rights watch is a respected organization by the way in the new decade elected exert a committee of the p.l.o. we formed a department for human rights we took a very important very seriously the next morning the

stern now volunteers his time reviewing medical records of those who died in detention for human rights watch. according to the nonprofit, there have been 81 deaths since 2010, 12 in this year alone. so far human rights watch has only been able to obtain medical records for 52 detainees who died since 2010. it says almost half those deaths were linked to substandard care. >> we're seeing cases of people who have been in detention for days, weeks, sometimes years, and developed problems that are easily identifiable and fixable. >> reporter: jazmine says they are now seeking justice and have filed a wrongful death claim seeking $60 million from the federal government. in it, jazmine calls the medical care provided by i.c.e. "woefully inadequate, neglectful, substandard." i.c.e. says it can't comment on the death of maria juarez because of ongoing litigation but says it takes very seriously the health, safety, and welfare of those in our care. >>> when we come back, shocking allegations of what happened to a father of six in detention. >> translator: i told the guard and he says they only take t

something which many people in the international community, including leading human rights organisations, like human rights watchhe un high commissionerfor human rights, michelle bachelet, they say is absolutely crucial to getting to the truth. but the crime happened in turkey so obviously, first, it had to be investigated thoroughly by our authorities, and we wanted to make sure that the saudis would actually co—operate. the saudi chief prosecutor came to istanbul, he met with our chief prosecutor but he didn't hand over any evidence, he didn't share any... turkish said that he hadn't co—operated. sorry? turkish officials said there wasn't sufficient cooperation... exactly, that's what i'm alluding to. so he came and there wasn't any cooperation. he didn't offer anything, and he just went back. so we didn't get the cooperation that we wanted to from saudi arabia. we're still hoping that they do come up with some cooperation, otherwise we are going to go to the un for an international investigation and the un have already welcomed this so... the thing is... ..so i think that's where things are going if the saudi

by amnesty international by human rights watch of serious human rights abuses including blocking foreign aid torturing detainees hostage taking using child soldiers shelling civilian areas that's a pretty damning pretty horrific indictment of your quote unquote government isn't it i would not call an indictment of our government or our authorities during the wars any war things happen and as i said we are open and transparent we would like to see these things correct and in mr wing's it is a that we are one hundred percent thinks happened during the war so again we are trying our best to limit any incidents that is coming from our side but you are talking about planes that are throwing hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs on civilians if you speak up. us national salvation of our military we are trying our best to limit any incidence of killing or as he said. but human rights groups don't agree with you you see things happen as if it's some sort of accident or natural disaster when amnesty human rights watch the un have documented over many months not over days or weeks of a consistent

human rights watch has spoken to ati's worlds apart program about the deteriorating humanitarian situationin yemen at the u.n. warning that it may become the worst famine in the world in one hundred years here whitson executive director of the rights groups middle east and north africa are part of sana boy the us political infighting is finally bringing the four year water public attention. i know you've been trying to raise awareness of the conflict in yemen for quite some time but it's long been a bit of an orphan war why all the attention now starting with the attention on saudi arabia garnered by. murder and the international attention that created which caused an increased focus on saudi arabia and its role in its policies not just to best to cleave but abroad as well the more their international supporters like the united states and the united kingdom pull back from their support of the saudi coalition that will create not only military pressure on the saudi coalition but also political pressure to come to a political resolution and do you think the the saudi authorities really care

media headlines of human rights watch told ortiz worlds apart program that american political infighting is finally bringing the four year conflict so public attention i know you've been trying to raise awareness of the conflict in yemen for quite some time but it's long been a bit of friend or fun war why all the attention now starting with the attention on saudi arabia garnered by jove on high sugar cheese murder and the international attention that created which caused an increased focus on saudi arabia and its role in its policies not just to best to cleave but abroad as well the more their international supporters like the united states and the united kingdom pull back from their support of the saudi coalition that will create not only military pressure on the saudi coalition but also political pressure to come to a political resolution and do you think the the saudi authorities really care about the political pressure they do care and they can't act alone and they do need the international support the international legitimacy the international cover that the united states and unite

director of the middle east and north africa division of human rights watch mr watson it's good to talk to you thank you very much for granting us some time. now i know you've been trying to raise awareness of the conflict in yemen for quite some time but it's long been a bit of an orphan war overshadowed by everything else going on in the region is that finally changing now is the warning to yemen finally getting the attention it deserves it certainly seems like it in the recent congressional review resolutions are an indication that the u.s. congress is finally focusing on the war and yemen and america's role in the war and yemen and with the attention that it deserves so i do think there will be a change come january with the congress now controlled by the democrats how do you explain this sudden interest in that conflict has been really a confluence of disasters for quite some time i think the united nations declared to be the worst humanitarian disaster a year or maybe even two years ago why all the attention now well i think it's a combination of factors really a sort of perfect s

conflict there who feel led side has also been accused by the un by amnesty international by human rights watch of serious human rights abuses including blocking foreign aid torturing detainees hostage taking using child soldiers shelling civilian areas that's a pretty damning pretty horrific indictment of your quote unquote government isn't it i would not call an indictment of our government or our authorities during the wars any war things happen and as i said we are open and transparent we would like to see these things correct and in mr wing's it is a that we are one hundred percent thinks happened during the war so again we are trying our best to limit any incidents that is coming from our side but you are talking about planes that are throwing hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs on civilians if you speak up. to us the national salvation of our military we are trying our best to limit any incidence of killing people or as he said. but human rights groups don't agree with you you see things happen as if it's some sort of accident or natural disaster what amnesty human rights watch the un

we have also had the us state department raise concerns, agencies like human rights watch saying therehuman rights watch saying there is a politically repressive environment in the city. on the ground, our experience is that when you drive around the city of dhaka, pretty much everywhere you will see posters of ruling party candidates, of league candidates, it is quite ha rd to of league candidates, it is quite hard to actually spot any kind of campaign material from the opposition. and on the ground, when i asked people what they were voting for, it was quite a mixed bag of opinions. some people have said that prime minister hasina, her main pitch, she has brought development to this country, she has sparked economic growth here, they said their lives had become better. prime minister hasina, when i spoke to her, said she has brought down poverty levels in this country. but on the other hand, i also made a lot of people saying that they feel that, you know, they have... increasingly dissent is being stifled in this country, that they feel they are not being free to express themselves

by easter considering something which many people in the international community, including human rights watchssion, say is absolutely to getting to the truth. the crime happen in turkey so obviously first it had to be investigated thoroughly by our authorities and we wanted to make sure that the saudis would actually co—operate. the saudi chief prosecutor met without prosecutor but he did not... turkish officials say there was not efficient cooperation... that is what i alluding to. we did not get the co—operation we wanted to from saudi arabia and we do hope they do come up arabia and we do hope they do come up with some corporation otherwise we are going to go to the un for an international investigation and the un have a ready welcome this so i think that is where things are going if the saudis do not co—operate. think that is where things are going if the saudis do not co-operate. for all the noise you have made about the killing of jamal all the noise you have made about the killing ofjamal khashoggi... that is not true... that is the view of the human rights watch had, she said the main

human rights watch says it's gathered evidence of violent acts being committed against asylum seekers crossing the border from turkey to greece the organization interviewed twenty six people who crossed over in the northeastern region of ever arses share and they describe being pushed back over a river into turkey and some made even more serious allegations such as being beaten by greek police in detention and being stripped of their clothes human rights watch wants the e.u. to urge greece to end for sports parents and to investigate claims of assault. only half of the central americans who were part of a so-called caravan of asylum seekers have entered the u.s. most of them are waiting to get in through the mexican border town. u.s. authorities say that almost three thousand people have now crossed illegally they're being held in custody on their asylum claims are reviewed how to abdulhamid reports. the border patrol has been in position since early morning. trying to discourage asylum seekers from taking the leap. instead in a matter of minutes to him and five teenagers and three ch

jordan al-jazeera washington or carlos convey is that research or the asian division those human rights watch and a former journalist he says the time magazine award will highlight the detention of two reuters journalists and men ma as well as others need to be able obviously magnify the case and the suffering that they have gone through us well as the plight of the rohingya and this also signifies to other hiren's in the region that you know actions against journalists actions against press freedom will have its consequences it may not come immediately it may not come in the next year or so but it will come sooner or later so that is why it is important that the recognition of the work and the suffering of these journalists are are being made tyrants they tend to a permit other they tend to. validate each other and on the case of the ferreted the case of who sent the case of their polluters of myanmar that is no different but i think it does turn up the into not speaking out does turn a team to not recognizing the value of press freedom is quite. silent and that is why. at the moment untenab

human rights watch says it's gathered evidence of violent acts being committed against asylum seekers crossing the border from turkey to greece the organization interviewed twenty six people who crossed over in the north eastern region of ever are says she's here and they describe being pushed back over a river into turkey and some made even more serious allegations like being beaten by police in detention and being stripped of their clothes human rights watch wants the e.u. to urge greece to end forced push that sand to investigate a sort of allegations. the u.n. security council's concerned by kosovo's decision to turn its security force into an army serbia is angry at friday's announcement which prompted the security council to meet the un peacekeeping chief is calling on both sides to show restraint garber got them of kosovo has made a mistake it's only that we had it for five years unnecessarily to establish an army the decision for the army might be belated but in no way is it the wrong one it's believed it because we waited for goodwill from those that never showed any good wil

a cholera epidemic and lack of food during the four years of war amnesty international and human rights watch say coalition forces have committed war crimes by bombing and indiscriminately killing and injuring civilians amnesty also accuses the u.a.e. of illegally detaining yemenis in nearly two dozen secret prisons as well as forced disappearances and torture u.a.e. denies all allegations the families of p.o.w. say the swap agreement is a chance to end their ordeal well i'm more and enough. we've been suffering for three years we've been hurt a lot my kids and my family are suffering only god almighty knows the volume of suffering and pain we are facing. the united nations humanitarian chief says living conditions in yemen are catastrophic where twenty million people are on the brink of famine making it the world's worst humanitarian crisis. on al-jazeera. we're going to weather update next here on the news out then good news for small business owners in cuba. desperate pleas of new york's police sparks outrage on social media. that is for the football team from new zealand getting ready to

but observers from human rights watch and even other observers from countries have expressed in the polling centers viewer that actually we found many voters who were saying that they were not able to work because the serial numbers cannot be found of course the agents inside the election commission of the site said this was going to a technical glitch no clear evidence off or any kind of of would trigger a ballot box stuffing has come out opposition leaders of course are claiming that they are hearing reports about this but right now as of now we are also getting reports from observers in dhaka saying that currently the election is proceeding as expected so this picture will be cleared up later in the evening but concerns have been expressed all right mission as well reporting from dhaka thanks so much. italian football club will play their next to home matches in an empty stadium after napoli player. was suggested subjected to racial abuse in milan earlier this week it was the latest in a series of incidents an italian football is struggling to eradicate the problem in the absence of an e

the run up to these elections and at least seventeen of the candidates now the organization human rights watch says that the atmosphere of fear and repression is not consistent with holding credible elections and some opposition candidates say that members of the security forces and supporters of the ruling party have surrounded their homes stop them from leaving and prevented them from campaigning in their local areas. at least ten people have been killed during election campaigning from both sides this video shows what the opposition says was an attack by ruling party supporters on a group of opposition politicians including the man leading the b.n.p. alliance while the party's leader. is in prison sayah double baucus of the was among those at times there were arrested every day on an average twenty people till yesterday that he's twenty eight december in eighteen days two hundred plus people those are carrying my election the trio's either leaflet or pamphlet or stickers. two hundred plus people these are all by hardcore leaders and workers the international community has praised prime mini

the human rights watch recently reported that imprisoned women activists have been subjected to torture, including electric shocks and other forms of physical and sexual assault. further, as every member of the senate knows, or should know, there is now overwhelming evidence that the saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman was responsible for the brutal shoji of jamaal shoji -- who lived in the united states as a columnist for the washington post and made a mistake of going into the saudi and neverin turkey came out alive. we believe his body was dismembered and nobody knows where it is. unbelievably, president trump despite the overwhelming evidence of the crown princes involvement in the murder of a man living in the , a saudi dissident journalist, president trump continues to proclaim his love and affection for the crown prince and the saudi regime. view,at is not how, in my the american people feel. for too many years, american men and women in our military have put their lives on the line in the never ending struggle with democracy and human rights. not turn and must their struggles

do anything to restrain the nigerian army which has been accused of gross human rights violations by amnesty by human rights watch of shooting nigerian shia protesters with live ammunition either of your candidates going to restrain the nigerian armed forces hold them to account. well i get where you are headed right off of the militants in iraq i'm going to work on what i met. today to get the book to go and. that has the sense i did. it wasn't for me they're not a cop about roughing up your crew you've got a problem up a knock at my command and finish your point about the nigerian army festus and then she did not do not military. i told you just to finish your point and then we'll go to shake and shake and hold on they're not permanently hostile or forgotten why don't you go release i mean help broke up you go home at the time i'm not going to talk what i wanted to listen to but if your mom and i well he would write so much disagreeing with you as you can that are going to do anything about the crimes that some nigerian soldiers accused of the palestinians going to do in. security at the country to determine wh

the observers from human rights watch and even other observers from countries have expressed concerns about the transparency of these polls now as electronic voting machines being used for the four star game and they are also reporting delicious and slow and that's one of the polling centers viewer that actually we found many voters who were saying that the were not able to work because the serial numbers cannot be found of course the agents inside the election commission of the site said this was purely a technical glitch no clear evidence off or any kind of of wood rigging of ballot box stuffing has come out opposition leaders of course are claiming that they are hearing reports about this but right now as of now we are also getting reports from observers in dhaka saying that currently the election is proceeding as expected so this picture will be cleared up later in the evening but concerns have been expressed. all right well reporting from death thanks so much. now to the democratic republic of congo a way presidential election is underway people there are choosing a success that'

human rights watch international the rights organization says that the atmosphere here in bangladesh at the moment one of fear and repression is not conducive with holding credible elections at this moment there's also been allegations made to the government that there's been a serious crackdown on media coverage journalists complaining of creasing the harsh defamation law. journalists are very afraid seemingly of of traveling to certain air. areas of this country to try and cover these elections and then of course today earlier today we saw what had been announced earlier by the government but this this reduction in the speed of the inside of the internet here going from four g. in some places down to two g. the government say this is necessary to stop what it describes as the spreading of false news so if you speak to people on the streets as we have been today as well they seem very determined to come out and cast their ballots in this election tomorrow but they are very concerned about the violence the violence that they've seen reported in some of the newspapers here and they're

conflict there who feel led side has also been accused by the un by amnesty international by human rights watch of serious human rights abuses including blocking foreign aid torturing detainees hostage taking using child soldiers shelling civilian areas that's a pretty damning pretty horrific indictment of your quote unquote government isn't it i would not call it indictment of our government or our authorities during the wars any war things happen and as i said we are open and transparent we would like to see these things aren't correct and in mr wing's it is a that we are one hundred percent thinks happened during the war so again we are trying our best to limit any incidents that is coming from our side but you are talking about planes that are throwing hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs on civilians if you speak up. us national salvation of our military we are trying our best to limit any incidence of killing or as he said. but human rights groups don't agree with you you see things happen as if it's some sort of accident or natural disaster when amnesty human rights watch the un have d

however human rights watch said in a reports in aug twenty eighth seen the d.j. i eighty work was not credible adding that it was covering up more crimes so that i'm going to be a list dawson of what i need to watch him and any money on the near feet of care month what i learn now that i'm gonna ask out on highways in no time or just father he feel. the. need to look at what. really. he had and how did. he get. to be credible any accountability mechanism needs to be unbiased and needs to be seen by the world. is impartial with regards to the various parties and that that will be the real test of whether. a count ability mechanism works or not. the reason that. so you feel that alliance eventually apologize from part of the school bus was because because because we're always being told that so to resume is monitoring itself for war crimes we're always being told that we're taking every precaution possible to avoid killing civilians and yet some who is being trusted to evaluate itself for war crimes when we've seen reporting which has come from the. from the side r

also complicates the matter probably even more resume koski a director of the german office of human rights watch thank you so much. right ever going to stay now in germany where authorities here have suspended frankfurt have suspended frankfurt five and half suspended in frankfurt five police officers accused of being members of a neo nazi group the four men and one woman are alleged to have sent each other nazi imagery and threatened a lawyers family the threats were signed and s u two point zero a reference to the neo nazi and su group which murdered ten people mostly of turkish origin as the latest in a spate of allegations of institutional racism in germany and has shocked many here . police officers from this plane for precinct attracted the attention of authorities weeks ago they're alleged to have exchanged extreme right wing messages in a chat group five officers have been suspended from duty. it's possible that they were also the ones who threatened lawyers say goodbye say you diesel you're on the right she was involved in the trial of members of the neo nazi group and as you. it has si

do anything to restrain the nigerian army which has been accused of gross human rights violations by amnesty by human rights watch of shooting nigerian shia protesters with live ammunition either of your candidates going to restrain the nigerian armed forces hold them to account. well i get where you're headed off of the militants in iraq i'm not going to support one but i met. president carter get the book to go and. if not for me then got a couple of i wrote an op and going through it got the bottom up a knock at my remit and finish your point about the nigerian army festus and then she did not do not military. i told you just to finish your point and then we'll go to show you and she would hold on they're not permanently hostile or from orbit and i don't recall really i mean help brought up to go home at the time i'm not going to what i'm going to now can i run the human rights watch disagree with you as you can that are going to do anything about the crimes that some nigerian soldiers accused of the piston is going to do. a security at the country to determine whether the men i was eight whether they have acu

in more than five months of civil unrest in september nicaragua made street protests illegal human rights watch criticize the raids on opposition media and the closure of human rights organizations the crowd was northern neighbor honduras is also accused of similar violations but there is a contrast in how the us treat these central american countries one receives punishing sanctions the other an extensive aid package donald quarter has the details. it's a tale of two central american countries both plagued with somewhat similar problems corruption violence and government crackdowns. the. rule of law has not fared so well in either country with one door us and nicaragua both sinking towards the bottom of the list ponderosa in nicaragua both exemplify a recent regional trend of suppressing the right to protest and using excessive force against demonstrators however hunder us is the only one out of the two that the us seems to have a soft side for don't just take my word for it nicaragua was one of the us is tyrannical trio the spread of tyranny follows a predictable pattern media and opposition

do anything to restrain the nigerian army which has been accused of gross human rights violations by amnesty by human rights watch of shooting nigerian shia protesters with live ammunition are either of your candidates going to restrain the nigerian armed forces pull them to account. well i get where you are headed right off of the militants in iraq i'm not going to support one but i met. the president to get the book to go and. they said if you're going to have this problem i'm betting you're not different from me they're not a couple of a broken up you're going to prove you've got a problem up a knock at my command and finish your point about the nigerian army festus and then she did not do not military. i told you just essential point and then we'll go to shake and shake and hold on they're not permanently hostile or forgotten why don't you go release i mean help rocket up you go home at a time i'm not going to what i'm going to listen to but if you're not going i'd run the human rights watch disagree with you as you can they're going to do anything about the crimes that some nigerian soldiers accused of the p