With Right Livelihood and ALQST for Human Rights, we delivered a joint oral statement during the 54th session of the Human Rights Council to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. In this statement, we raised the case of Saudi human rights defender Mohammed al-Qahtani, who has been forcibly disappeared since October 2022, and called on Saudi Arabia to end its widespread practice of enforced disappearance.
MENA Rights Group joins 11 international and Lebanese civil society organisations in condemning the Lebanese authorities' use of drug charges as a tool to repress freedoms and liberties, particularly the recent interrogation and procedural violations against investigative journalist Mariam Lahham.
MENA Rights Group joins 15 civil society organisations in condemning Saudi Arabia's use of X (formerly Twitter) as a surveillance tool to crack down on free speech and calling on X to respect human rights, including the right to free expression and the right to privacy, and mitigate any adverse human rights impacts linked to the platform's services and products –including protecting users’ safety and even lives, the right to anonymity.
MENA Rights Group joined more than 200 global organisations to demand that the international community pursue accountability for the UAE’s track record of repressive behavior at home and abroad ahead of the COP28 climate conference.
MENA Rights Group joins 40+ signatories in urging Egyptian authorities to release Gamal Abdelhamid Ziada, the father of human rights defender, journalist and former prisoner of conscience Ahmed Gamal Ziada. Furthermore, we call on authorities to cease their acts of reprisal against families of journalists and human rights defenders.
MENA Rights Group joins 27 civil society organisations in calling on Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release political activist Mohamed Adel, to cease the targeting of individuals exercising their right to freedom of expression and to uphold basic human rights and the rule of law.
In the wake of a violent assault on a LGBTI-friendly bar in Beirut, Lebanese authorities are attacking the fundamental rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people. As part of the Coalition to Defend Freedom of Expression in Lebanon, we call on the Lebanese authorities to immediately scrap the proposed anti-LGBTI laws and end the ongoing attacks on basic freedoms.
In a worrying trend of escalating attacks on free expression, Lebanese authorities arrested comedian Nour Hajjar for jokes critical of the government. As part of the Coalition to Defend Freedom of Expression in Lebanon, MENA Rights Group calls on authorities to drop the charges against Hajjar and to abolish laws criminalising insults and criticism of authorities.
MENA Rights Group joins 18 civil society organisations in urging Egyptian authorities to close Case 173, which punishes more than 20 human rights defenders through asset freezes and travel bans, and to cease the targeting of independent civil society.
MENA Rights Group joins 18 civil society organisations in urging the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to call on UAE officials to immediately and uncondtionally release Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor.
MENA Rights Group joins 99+ signatories, including civil society organisations, in condemning the harassment of Egyptian independent media outlets and journalists.
A joint appeal from 20+ organisations urging the UAE authorities to release all those unjustly imprisoned in the country, including human rights defenders, lawyers and dissidents, before the start of COP28 in Expo City Dubai between 30 November and 12 December 2023.
