Benjamin Weinthal
In 2009, HRW’s handling of the Qaddafi regime’s incarceration of anti-regime activist Fathi Eljahmi prompted Eljahmi’s brother, Muhammad, to write in an online commentary for Forbes that the activist’s death “should give prominent human rights organizations pause. For nearly a year, both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch hesitated to advocate publicly for Fathi’s case, because they feared their case workers might lose access to Libyan visas.” http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261164/qaddafis-useful-idiots-benjamin-weinthal
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Fast-moving events in Libya have catapulted the scandal-plagued Middle East and North African Division (MENA) of Human Rights Watch into a new controversy for its failure over the years to diligently investigate human rights violations in Libya. http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=210412