The hackers are upset because of an article published by the organization

Mar 18, 2013 08:11 GMT  ·  By

Members of the Syrian Electronic Army have once again hijacked the website and social media accounts of an organization they accuse of spreading lies about the situation in Syria.

On this occasion, the target is the Human Rights Watch (HRW), an independent organization that dedicates its efforts to defending human rights.

According to the hackers, they’ve targeted HRW after the organization published a story about Syria expanding the use of cluster munitions, a banned weapon.

“We have repeatedly warned you of our anger,” the hackers said after defacing the news section of HRW’s website.

In addition to the website, the Syrian Electronic Army has also hijacked the organization’s official Twitter account (@hrw).

HackRead reports that the Twitter account of HRW Indonesia and the one of Hanan Salah, a HRW representative from Lybia, have also been hacked.

Currently, the main Human Rights Watch Twitter account has been restored, but the other two still display the messages published by the hackers.

HRW hasn’t made any statements regarding the incident, except for a tweet which reads: “Apologies for the previous tweet, sent from an unauthorized user, #Syria clusters report is here [link].”