US lawmakers say the British-Egyptian Alaa Abdel Fattah is “in desperate need of immediate intervention to help secure his freedom. Egypt Human Rights caucus co-chairs Representative Malinowski and Representative Don Beyer have released a letter [ More … ]
The US government has been urged to boycott next month’s G20 summit in Riyadh over the kingdom’s rights violations. Forty-five American lawmakers have urged the US government to boycott next month’s G20 summit in Riyadh [ More … ]
A recent letter reviewed by The Washington Post, US lawmakers signal Sisi’s rights violation ‘will not be tolerated’ if Biden wins the presidency. US lawmakers are calling on Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release political [ More … ]
Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Gandour faced a wave of calls by legislators to declare Sudan’s support to Qatar which is facing huge diplomatic and economic pressures from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain [ More … ]
Kuwait will restore the citizenship of opposition figures and dozens of their relatives nearly three years after revoking it in a crackdown on dissent, lawmakers said Monday. “Our thanks to the emir for his generous [ More … ]
We would also like to see ages of ministers going down to 18 from 25 years, Turkish president says President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has voiced his support for the constitutional change that would lower the [ More … ]
Turkish President Erdogan’s aide Ibrahim Kalin says constitutional change will give country effective, transparent and fast management Turkey will have a much more effective, transparent and fast government model, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin has said [ More … ]
Turkish PM congratulates deputies for passing Constitution; says ‘people will have the final say’ Turkish lawmakers approved a new Constitution early Saturday as deputies completed voting on 18 articles. A total of 339 MPs voted [ More … ]
Binali Yıldırım says any amendment to first four founding articles of Turkish constitution out of question Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Saturday has ruled out any possible change to Turkish constitution’s first four articles, which [ More … ]
A Turkish parliamentary committee early Friday passed a bill on constitutional change that proposes a switch to a presidential system of governance. The bill, backed by the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s 316 lawmakers, [ More … ]
The extradition of Fetullah Gulen will be one of the hot topics during a visit to Washington by a Turkish parliamentary delegation, a Justice and Development (AK) Party deputy said Tuesday, according to Anadolu Agency. “July [ More … ]
Tobruk’s house of representative (HoR) has refused to give its approval to the U.N.-backed government known as the Government of National Accord (GNA), which is considered as a major blow to its efforts to maintain [ More … ]
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