Over the past few years, the term “enforced disappearance” has emerged on the surface of volatile and accelerating political events. The Egyptians were not familiar with such violation which deprives a person from law protection, [ More … ]
The BBC published last week a short documentary and report highlighting what it said were cases of enforced disappearances and torture carried out by security forces since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014. [ More … ]
Under Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian police and National Security agents have routinely used torture and enforced disappearances against both criminal suspects and perceived political opponents with near impunity, according to HRW. In 2011, the world [ More … ]
Local media reports in Libya stated that the head of the council of elders in the oil terminal district of Sidra was seized while traveling from Ajdabiya to his home in Ras Lanuf. It is [ More … ]
UN-backed government in Tripoli and human rights groups said that it has evidence that Haftar’s militias are carrying out abuses in Benghazi. Several videos were posted online showing Haftar’s forces killing captured fighters. The Libyan National Army(LNA), [ More … ]
BY: İBRAHIM KALIN* The Dutch government’s enmity against Turkish ministers shows something deeper than the violations of diplomacy, international laws and freedom of speech which is the emergence of European hypocrisy What happened over the last [ More … ]
Steps are being taken to consolidate a three-month ceasefire in Syria throughout the country despite increasing violations, Turkey’s Ambassador to Russia Huseyin Dirioz said Monday. The nationwide Syrian ceasefire that came into force on December [ More … ]
An Egyptian court called n the Interior Ministry to legally pursue the New York-based Human Rights Watch organization for not having state clearance to operate in Egypt. The international rights origination doesn’t have an office [ More … ]
Social media activists have launched a hashtag ‘# Tell me about_al-Sisi_crimes’ (in Arabic) on abuses of the Al-Sisi regime against civilians on the occasion of Human Rights Day that commemorates the day on which the [ More … ]
-Three-day UN-backed ceasefire went into effect midnight Wednesday – Three Yemeni army personnel and scores of Shia Houthi militiamen and their allies were killed in Thursday clashes in Al-Jawf province, Yemen, on the first day [ More … ]
Amnesty International accused – in a recent report on Tuesday, Oct. 18 – the Shi’a militias, known as the Popular Mobilization Units, as well as Iraqi government forces of committing “serious human rights violations, including [ More … ]
After a meeting between the two leaders last week during the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull invited al- Sisi to visit Australia. ABC -Australia’s state-owned news and funded national public [ More … ]
By: Amr Hamzawy* The regime in Egypt cannot count on real economic and social achievements to get people to overlook the overwhelming practices of violence, injustices, and daily violations. The Egyptian authorities cannot either formulate [ More … ]
Dr. Tarek El Ghandour, a dermatologist professor at Ain Shams University and a leading figure of the Freedom and Justice party, was sentenced by the criminal court to 5 years in prison on December 14, [ More … ]
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly denounced Israel’s persistence in its violations against the Palestinian people, their holy sites and land and criticized the Middle East Quartet’s report on Palestine. A new Middle [ More … ]
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