Rights groups say freedoms ‘face an imminent peril’ after police used water cannons and tear gas at a demonstration against President Kais Saied last week Tunisian human rights groups have warned that freedoms in the [ More … ]
Human rights organizations say treatment of Dr. Salah Soltan, father of Mohamed Soltan, may amount to enforced disappearance as well as torture An alliance of leading human rights organizations have voiced serious concern about Egypt’s [ More … ]
A prominent Egyptian activist who was released on probation in March was arrested again on Sunday, his family and a security source said, part of what government critics say is the largest wave of arrests [ More … ]
Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations released statements this week condemning the use of excessive force by Israeli forces against Palestinians, particularly Palestinian protesters, which in many cases, result in death. Israeli human rights [ More … ]
As Monday marked 50 years of Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials and rights groups denounced half a century of “oppression and subjugation” of the Palestinian people [ More … ]
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