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 … ]
US Democratic candidate Joe Biden has said there will be no more “blank checks for Trump’s favorite dictator” in a widely shared Twitter post. The comments come not long after the release of the dual [ More … ]
A well-known Saudi activist and whistle-blower known online as “Mujtahid” has exposed the existence of a secret prison run by Riyadh in Yemen’s largest province, Hadhramout. Mujtahid made his claim on Twitter yesterday, where he [ More … ]
With the increasing spread of the coronavirus over the world, Egyptian political and human rights activists launched a campaign titled, “Release the prisoners” The campaign demanded the Egyptian authorities to release the detainees due to [ More … ]
An Iranian judiciary spokesperson said tens of thousands of prisoners, including political prisoners, had been releasedIran has released around 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, from its jails to combat the spread of coronavirus, a judicial [ More … ]
Egyptian social media activists on Sunday launched a campaign calling for saving the life of Gehad Haddad who suffered from food contamination in an Egyptian jail. Since the military overthrow in July 2013 of Egypt’s [ More … ]
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 … ]
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