MENA Rights Group joins regional and international civil society in urging UN Member States to address the ongoing repression of civic space in Algeria during the upcoming 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
MENA Rights Group joins 30+ organisations in condemning the Egyptian authorities' decision to block the independent media platform Zawia 3, amidst a broader pattern of restrictions on press freedom and digital rights in Egypt.
MENA Rights Group joins 13 other NGOs in calling on Saudi authorities to refrain from carrying out the death sentence of dozens of prisoners, most Egyptian nationals, held in Tabuk prison.
MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of 25 UK, Egyptian and international organisations in urging British Foreign Secretary David Lammy to use the UN Human Rights Council to draw attention to the pronounced human rights crisis in Egypt. Doing so would support arbitrarily imprisoned British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the groups said.
MENA Rights Group and Safeguard Defenders welcome the recent release of Uyghur activist Yidiresi Aishan, who faced extradition from Morocco to China following his arrest in 2021.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is sponsoring an investment conference in Miami and further whitewashing the country’s egregious human rights record, five human rights groups including MENA Rights Group said today. The PIF’s Future Investment Initiative Institute (FII Institute) Priority Summit is to be held in Miami from February 19 to 21, 2025.
MENA Rights Group leads a coalition of 15 civil society organisations in urging the Arab Interior Ministers' Council to cease its facilitation of arbitrary extraditions of peaceful dissidents and human rights defenders across Arab League countries and to align its legal framework and systems with international human rights law.
MENA Rights Group joins 30 organisations in a joint letter to EU leaders urging them to call on Bahrain to release Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad, two EU-Bahraini nationals who are arbitrarily detained.
Following the announcement made by the Kuwaiti government to amend its Nationality Law and effectively strip thousands of individuals of their citizenship, MENA Rights Group joins 8 other organisations in calling on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately suspend the revocation of nationality of these individuals.
MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of Arab civil society organisations in condemning US President Trump's policy of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians.
After the announcement of a new agreement between Saudi Arabia and INTERPOL to open a Regional Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa in Riyadh, MENA Rights Group and ALQST for Human Rights address an open letter to INTERPOL inviting the organisation to reconsider their decision.
MENA Rights Group joins 40+ human rights organisations in urging UAE authorities to clarify the whereabouts of Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-Turkish poet who was recently extradited from Lebanon to the UAE, where he remains forcibly disappeared. The letter calls on the authorities to release him and guarantee his safe return to Turkey.
