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MENA Rights Group joins 11 civil society organisations in condemning and urging the Lebanese government to halt its forced deportations of Syrian refugees to areas inside Syria deemed unsafe.

MENA Rights Group, Addameer and Stop The Wall urgently appealed to the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders (HRDs) following Israel's administrative detention and ill-treatment of three Palestinian HRDs, urging her to call for their immediate release.

MENA Rights Group joins 13 civil society organisations in calling on Saudi Arabia’s authorities to immediately lift the illegal travel ban imposed on woman human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul. A court-imposed ban on her travelling abroad expired six months ago today, but since then she has been under an arbitrary travel ban with no expiry date, in violation of both international human rights law and the kingdom’s own legislation.

MENA Rights Group joins 80+ organisations in reiterating their call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release prominent political activist Mohamed Adel, who has been arbitrarily detained for 5 years, amid mounting concern over his cruel and inhuman detention conditions and denial of adequate medical care.

MENA Rights Group and ALQST for Human Rights call on Saudi authorities to immediately disclose Mohammed al-Qahtani’s whereabouts and to release him, and to stop using the Saudi Human Rights Commission as cover for its rights violations.

MENA Rights Group joins 30 organizations in expressing grave concerns regarding the death sentence and imminent executions of young men in Saudi Arabia for acts they committed as minors.

MENA Rights Group joins 15+ civil society organisations in urging Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release lawyer and human rights defender Hoda Abdel Moneim who has been arbitrarily detained for more than 2,000 days.

As the United Nations face a historic liquidity crisis due to unpaid dues, MENA Rights Group joins civil society organisations in urging Member States to fulfill their financial obligations, safeguarding critical human rights operations.

A l’issue de son quatrième cycle de l’Examen Périodique Universel, Djibouti a informé le Conseil des droits de l’Homme de sa décision d’accepter 228 des 269 recommandations que le pays avait reçues. Si Djibouti a accepté la plupart des recommandations appelant les autorités à renforcer la mise en œuvre concrète des droits humains, le pays n’a pas accepté celles concernant la ratification d’instruments supplémentaires relatifs aux droits humains.

Monday, 15 April 2024 marks the tenth anniversary of the arrest of Saudi human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair, who is serving a 15-year prison sentence as a result of his peaceful human rights activism. He has repeatedly been ill-treated in prison, including being denied vital medical care. The undersigned organisations call on the Saudi authorities to […]

As part of the Ramadan #ReleaseThem campaign, MENA Rights Group joins local and international civil society organisations in calling on Algerian authorities to release unjustly imprisoned detainees for expressing their opinions or peacefully exercising their freedoms, and to open up civic space to civil society actors in order to ensure the unhindered exercise of their missions towards the rule of law.

Committee for Justice, Freedom House, and MENA Rights Group have jointly petitioned the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on behalf of Nasser Zefzafi, an imprisoned political activist in Morocco. Zefzafi is serving an unjust 20-year prison sentence for his peaceful activism on behalf of his indigenous Amazigh community in the marginalized Rif region.