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Israel shuts Palestinian health provider, Amnesty raises alarm

June 11, 2021 MEO Staff

Israel’s move to shut down a key healthcare body in the occupied territories will have “catastrophic consequences” for Palestinians in need of medical attention, global rights group Amnesty International warned. Israeli army forces raided the [ More … ]

Israel Latest News

Amnesty calls for releasing Palestinians held by Israel without charge

June 19, 2017 MEO Staff

Human rights organization Amnesty International has reiterated its condemnation of the Israeli practice of detaining Palestinians without charge or trial, based on undisclosed evidence, after the administrative detention sentences of three high-profile prisoners were recently [ More … ]

Uae Latest News

Jailed UAE lawyer awarded human rights prize

May 28, 2017 MEO Staff

A lawyer for activists arrested by UAE authorities and subsequently jailed himself for ten years has been awarded with Ludovic Trarieux Award for defending freedoms and human rights. A UAE lawyer sentenced to ten years [ More … ]

Syria Latest News

Syria regime ‘burns thousands of bodies’ to hide mass-killings

May 16, 2017 MEO Staff

The Syrian regime is engaging in industrial-scale killing and burning victims’ bodies in a purpose-build crematorium near Damascus, according to the US government. Syria regime is engaging in industrial-scale killing of detainees, while disposing tens [ More … ]

Iran Latest News

Iran, Saudi Arabia, China top world execution list 2016

April 12, 2017 MEO Staff

Number of executions worldwide in 2016 drops from 2015, while Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s Egypt manages to double its number of capital punishments carried out. China executed the most people in 2016, followed by Iran and [ More … ]

Assad: Reports of torture, executions in Syria are "Photoshopped"
Syria Latest News

Assad: Reports of torture, executions in Syria are “Photoshopped”

February 10, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

Bashar Al-Assad has said in a new interview that the evidence of torture and mass hangings in Syria are fabricated and accused Amnesty International of making lies to discredit his “embattled government.” Yahoo News made an exclusive interview [ More … ]

Assad: Syrian Refugees resemble a threat to the west
Syria Latest News

Assad: Syrian Refugees resemble a threat to the west

February 10, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

Bashar Al-Assad has said in a new interview that some of the refugees are in fact terrorists, just days after Amnesty international published a report about mass execution in Assad regime’s prisons. Yahoo News made [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Chief of British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in Cairo for Discussing Counter-Terrorism

January 10, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

Al-Sisi has met with the Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Alex Younger in Cairo in the presence of the Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service Khaled Fawzy and discussed cooperation in counter-terrorism. [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

France Defense Minister Praises Military Cooperation With Egypt

September 26, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

France Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian met Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi at a Cairo meeting on Sunday. The French minister said that France appreciates Egypt’s pivotal role as a main pillar for security and stability in the [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Amnesty: US-made bomb was used in attack on Yemen hospital

September 19, 2016 MEO Staff

Amnesty International revealed on Monday in a report analyzed by a munition expert that it has evidence that the Saudi-led coalition, battling Yemeni rebels, dropped a U.S.-made bomb on a hospital,. Amnesty International said, that the [ More … ]

Iran: Women’s rights activists treated as "enemies of the state"
Iran Latest News

Iran: Women’s rights activists treated as “enemies of the state”

August 10, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

Iranian authorities have intensified their repression of women’s rights activists in the country in the first half of this year, carrying out a series of harsh interrogations and increasingly likening any collective initiative relating to [ More … ]

Column

Amnesty International: Flag carrier of hypocrite human rights industry

July 28, 2016 MEO Staff

By: Merve Şebnem*  Turkish people haven’t seen any merciful reactions from Amnesty International for the Turkish civilians who lost their lives or were severely wounded by the Gülenist coup plotters Amnesty International, a so-called non-governmental [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Both U.S. Presidential Candidates Support Dictators

July 15, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

Hillary Clinton has been criticizing Donald Trump for praising dictators; but practically Clinton herself has a history of alliances with strongmen in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Honduras. The Intercept has published an article titled: “Donald Trump Praises [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia slams calls for its suspension in UN human rights council
Saudi Arabia News

Saudi Arabia slams calls for its suspension in UN human rights council

July 1, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

Saudi Arabia on Thursday said it was “alarmed and outraged” by a call from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for the kingdom to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council until a Saudi-led military [ More … ]

Calls to suspend Saudi Arabia from UN human rights council
Saudi Arabia News

Calls to suspend Saudi Arabia from UN human rights council

June 30, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to suspend Saudi Arabia from the U.N. Human Rights Council until a Saudi-led military coalition stops killing civilians in Yemen. [ More … ]

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