Amnesty Archives - Middle East Observer

Saudi Arabia Escalates Crackdown on Dissent

May 1, 2019 MEO Staff

Amnesty says ‘govt phishing’ endangers Egypt activists

March 7, 2019 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Amnesty urges release of Egyptian lawyer held over yellow vests

February 19, 2019 MEO Staff

Yellow vests have become the symbol of an ongoing protest movement in France Rights group Amnesty International called Monday for the release of an Egyptian lawyer arrested after posing in a photo wearing a yellow [ More … ]

Egypt is an Open Air Prison for Critics: Amnesty

January 6, 2019 MEO Staff

Rights group calls Egypt an ‘open-air prison’ for critics and calls on the Egyptian government to release people held for peacefully expressing opinions. In a new campaign launched by Amnesty International on Thursday, titled Egypt, [ More … ]

Egyptian children tortured, forcibly disappeared under Sisi Regime: Amnesty

November 21, 2018 MEO Staff

Egyptian Children face shocking violations including torture and enforced disappearance The Egyptian authorities have committed shocking violations against children since 2013, with at least six tortured in custody and 12 subjected to enforced disappearances since [ More … ]

Amnesty says 19 rights activists, lawyers arrested in Egypt

November 2, 2018 MEO Staff

Amnesty International says Egyptian authorities have arrested 19 rights lawyers and activists, including eight women, as part of the country’s ongoing crackdown on civil society. The London-based advocacy group says in a Thursday statement that [ More … ]

Egypt Is Using Banned U.S.-Made Cluster Munitions in Sinai, says Amnesty

March 2, 2018 MEO Staff

Egypt’s armed forces have used internationally outlawed cluster bombs, made in the United States, in operations aimed at crushing Islamic extremists in northern Sinai, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The use of such weapons, if confirmed, [ More … ]

Iran sends 90 tonnes of food to Qatar amid an escalating diplomatic dispute

June 11, 2017 MEO Staff

Iran sent five planes of food to Qatar days after Gulf countries cut off air and other transport links to the emirate. Iran sent five planes of food to Qatar, Iran’s national carrier confirmed on [ More … ]

Thousands protest Tunisia’s corruption amnesty bill

May 14, 2017 MEO Staff

Proposed law gives amnesty to businessmen accused of corruption under ousted president Ben Ali. More than 2,000 Tunisians marched in the country’s capital protesting a proposed amnesty bill that would see businessmen accused of corruption [ More … ]

Prominent Emirati academic jailed for 10 years over tweets

March 30, 2017 MEO Staff

Bin Ghaith’s last tweets were widely critical of governments across the Arab world A prominent academic was sentenced by a UAE court to 10 years in prison over a series of tweets idely critical of [ More … ]

Amnesty alarmed by health condition of hunger-striking prisoner Muhammad al-Qiq

February 23, 2017 MEO Staff

Human rights NGO Amnesty International expressed alarm on Wednesday over the health condition of Muhammad al-Qiq, a Palestinian prisoner on his second prominent hunger strike. Amnesty said that it had been informed that al-Qiq had [ More … ]

‘Human Slaughterhouse’ .. Mass Hangings and Extermination- Amnesty Report on Syrian ‘Saydnaya’ Jail

February 8, 2017 MEO Staff

As many as 13,000 people most of them opposition supporters have been executed at Syrian ‘Saydnaya’ military prison near Damascus. Horrifying details have been released from inside a Syrian “human slaughterhouse” where up to 13,000 [ More … ]

Egypt’s Chief of Staff Visits Britain to Discuss Military Cooperation Issues

February 1, 2017 Noura Ali

Egypt’s army chief of staff Mahmoud Hegazi headed on Tuesday to London for talks with British army leaders on bolstering Egyptian-British military cooperation, as stated the Egyptian Armed Forces. Hegazi will meet with British officials to talk [ More … ]

A New Regeni Killed after Being Tortured by Egyptian Police Forces

September 3, 2016 Noura Ali

A new Regeni was found dead in Cairo after being arrested by the Egyptian police forces. The body of medical student Ahmed Medhat appeared at Cairo’s main morgue shortly after his arrest by the police [ More … ]

Amnesty: 18.000 civilians died in Assad regime prisons

August 18, 2016 Mahmoud Eskaf

Almost 18,000 Syrians have died in government jails since 2011, with authorities using torture, beatings, electric shocks and rape against prisoners on a “massive scale,” a rights group has said. The UK-based Amnesty International said on [ More … ]