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 … ]
The Trump administration’s recent decision to release $195 million in military aid to Egypt has left rights experts stunned and deeply worried, says an NPR report. A year ago, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suspended [ More … ]
Sadiq al-Mahdi, the leader of Sudan’s largest opposition party, the National Umma Party, has called for “reconciliation” with Egypt in return for the release of imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Speaking in an interview to Sudan [ More … ]
As next in line to be king of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef was unaccustomed to being told what to do. Then, one night in June, he was summoned to a palace in Mecca, held [ More … ]
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 … ]
Thousands of Moroccans held rallies for a sixth straight night, demanding that authorities release the leader of a political grassroots movement. Thousands of people held demonstrations in Morocco for the sixth night running on Wednesday, [ More … ]
Palestinian Jerusalemite lawmaker Muhammad Abu Tair was released from Israel’s Ktziot prison in the Negev desert Tuesday morning after serving out a 17-month sentence. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies reported on its website that [ More … ]
Jordan on Sunday released a soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls during a class trip in 1997, after he served 20 years in prison, an official said. Jordan on Sunday released a soldier who killed [ More … ]
Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq has suspended his hunger strike upon reaching an agreement with Israeli authorities to be released in mid April, the Palestinian Prisoners’s Society (PPS) reported on Friday. It remained unclear the exact [ More … ]
The US State Department’s annual Human Rights Report has been released. The results for Morocco primarily reflect areas needing improvement but also acknowledge some of the positive steps the government has taken in key areas. [ More … ]
After completing a 12-year sentence in Israeli prison, 34-year-old Moussa Darwish was immediately redetained by Israeli forces upon being released on Sunday. Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners head Amjad Abu Asab said that Israeli [ More … ]
United States President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly frozen the $221 million dollars that former president Barack Obama had released to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the final hours of his presidency earlier this week, [ More … ]
Israeli authorities on Thursday released an employee of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) back to his home in the Gaza Strip, after six months of detention, according to local Palestinian sources. Waheed al-Bursh, a [ More … ]
Egyptian state-owned media are keeping silent regarding the lives of more than 40 Egyptian citizens by Houthis in Yemen. None of the Egypt’s media touched the unknown fate of 49 Egyptians who have been kidnapped since last [ More … ]
A group of Egyptian youth have organized – in coordination with students from different nationalities – a campaign that calls for the release of the student ‘Israa Khaled Saeed’. A number of videos in more [ More … ]
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