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Following a request for opinion filed by MENA Rights Group and the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR), the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) found that the detention and death sentence of five Saudi individuals who participated in protests in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia while they were minors, violates international human rights law and qualifies as arbitrary.

Algerian authorities have increasingly used arbitrary travel bans to retaliate against perceived critics, Human Rights Watch and MENA Rights Group said. The authorities should lift the arbitrary bans and stop using them as a tool to repress dissent.

In a joint letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, MENA Rights Group joins partner organisations in urging US authorities to help secure the release of Ahmed Kamel, an Egyptian national detained in Saudi Arabia who faces imminent extradition to Egypt.

MENA Rights Group joins civil society organisations in welcoming the reduction of the prison sentence of Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi prisoner of conscience.

MENA Rights Group sent a letter to Royal Jet expressing concern regarding the company's possible involvement in the unlawful extradition of Turkish-Egyptian dissident Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi.

MENA Rights Group joins 500+ signatories in urging Lebanese authorities to immediately release poet Abdel Rahman Youssef Al-Qaradawi and to not extradite him to Egypt, where he risks human rights abuses.

MENA Rights Group strongly condemns the Jordanian authorities' ongoing crackdown on pro-Palestine activism and has appealed to several UN Special Rapporteurs, urging them to call for its immediate halt.

On November 27 and 28, 2024, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination examined Saudi Arabia’s combined tenth and eleventh periodic reports. The Committee issued its Concluding Observations on December 10, 2024 and found a number of violations to the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by the Saudi authorities.

MENA Rights Group welcomes the conclusions and recommendations made by the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to downgrade the national human rights institutions (NHRIs) of Egypt and Iraq to status B, and to maintain the status B of the Bahraini NHRI. These recommendations echo our concerns over the three […]

During an event at the UN Headquarters in New York, civil society organisations and the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism raised their concerns regarding the troubling pattern of transnational repression in the MENA region.

MENA Rights Group welcomes the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture’s recommendations for Jordan to respect its obligations under the Convention against Torture. Jordanian authorities must work toward abolishing the practice of torture, holding perpetrators accountable, ensuring legal safeguards are afforded to all detainees, and prohibiting unlawful extraditions.   On November 6 and 7, 2024, […]

Washington, DC and Geneva, Switzerland – The Committee for Justice, Freedom House and MENA Rights Group praised the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s (WGAD) recently announced Opinion qualifying the detention of Moroccan activist Nasser Zefzafi as arbitrary, and calling on the Moroccan government to take action to release Zefzafi without delay.  Zefzafi is a Moroccan […]