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Tens of thousands of protesters have been demanding Algeria’s president sit out coming election Algeria’s ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has returned to the country on Sunday, where he faces widespread protests against his plans for [ More … ]
There was much to celebrate last spring when Ariel Emanuel, the chief executive of the talent agency Endeavor, helped throw a splashy Hollywood party for Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The soiree, with [ More … ]
There must be consequences when a country violates human rights. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case, writes journalist Rainer Hermann from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In his article, “EU must hold Egypt accountable on human [ More … ]
One of Egypt’s best-known actors has been told that he has been sentenced to eight years in jail in his absence for criticising the regime of President Sisi. Amr Waked, best known in Britain for [ More … ]
Amnesty International warned Wednesday that dozens of rights activists in Egypt have been put in “grave danger” by email phishing attacks that it says appear to be government orchestrated. “Dozens of Egyptian human rights defenders [ More … ]
King Salman said to have been angered by recent moves by Prince Mohammed against him There are growing signs of a potentially destabilizing rift between the king of Saudi Arabia and his heir, according to [ More … ]
Moataz Matar’s family was arrested and forcibly disappeared by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime, a new chapter of dictatorship, detaining families of political opposition. Moataz Matar, a prominent Egyptian anti-government TV commentator, has said his two [ More … ]
Before he was murdered inside a Saudi Consulate in October, the Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi questioned why Saudi Arabia had detained a prominent doctor, Walid Fitaihi, a dual Saudi-U.S. citizen seized in a November [ More … ]
In the Hajjah governorate, residents have been struggling to make ends meet since the beginning of the war Khalid Abdullah, a 33-year-old resident of Yemen’s Hajjah governorate, used to work on the farms he had [ More … ]
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has submitted official papers confirming he will seek re-election, Ennahar TV said on Sunday, despite mass protests against the move. There was no official confirmation, but state news agency APS published [ More … ]
Israel’s attorney-general announced on Thursday he intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, a decision coming just six weeks before a closely contested national election. It was the first time a serving [ More … ]
Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has been blamed by many Egyptians for Wednesday’s deadly train crash in Cairo which killed at least 25 people. Egyptians balmed Al-Sisi for rampant corruption and his refusal to invest [ More … ]
United Nations investigators reported on Thursday that Israeli forces who fired on Palestinians during the mass demonstrations on the border with Gaza, killing more than 100 people, may have committed war crimes. The report, by [ More … ]
Hassan Rouhani says ‘Iran has only one foreign policy and one foreign minister’ a day after minister quits Zarif, left, gave no specific reasons for his decision to resign, but cited an ‘inability to continue [ More … ]
The UN human rights office voiced concern about trials that saw 15 people executed in Egypt this month may have been unfair amid allegations of torture used to obtain confessions. Egypt executed nine men on [ More … ]
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