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Lebanon

Lebanon repeals law that allows a rapist to avoid punishment by marrying victim

August 17, 2017 MEO Staff

Lebanon has become the latest Middle Eastern country to repeal a law allowing rapists to escape punishment if they marry their victims. Lebanon’s parliament has abolished a law that allowed a rapist to escape punishment [ More … ]

Somalia

Somalia: Women raped in camps after fleeing drought

June 4, 2017 MEO Staff

The majority of the assailants were soldiers, using the threat of their weapons and the power of their uniforms against the displaced women. At the beginning of the year, conditions for Somalia gradually worsened, as [ More … ]

Iraq Latest News

Iraq forces reportedly involved in abuses against civilians in Iraq’s Mosul

May 25, 2017 MEO Staff

Iraqi forces and militias deployed to fight the Islamic State group from Mosul, ISIS last stronghold in Iraq, have abused civilians according to The New Arab news website. In a team of seven foreign reporters [ More … ]

Islamic State Latest News

Daesh ‘rapes and tortures Sunni Arab women too’: HRW

February 21, 2017 MEO Staff

Human Rights Watch on Monday said Daesh fighters have raped and tortured not only Yazidi women but also Sunni Arab women. Daesh fighters, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Amnesty New Report: Enforced Disappearance Has Become a Key Instrument of State Policy in Egypt

July 13, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

Amnesty International has released a new report saying that hundreds of Egyptians have been forcibly disappeared and tortured in a “sinister” campaign to wipe out peaceful dissent in the most populous country in the Arab [ More … ]

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