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Torture to death: Military Justice fails to deliver

MENA Rights Group joins local and international NGOs in urging Lebanese judicial authorities to hold accountable the State Security officers who tortured Syrian refugee Bashar Abdel Saud to death.

Egypt: Lift punitive measures against EIPR staff

MENA Rights Group joins 33 rights groups in their call on the Egyptian government to immediately lift the arbitrary travel bans and asset freezes imposed upon three directors of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a prominent Egyptian human rights organisation.

#FreeAhmedKamel: Saudi Arabia must not extradite peaceful protester to Egypt, where he would face torture

Following the arrest and detention in Saudi Arabia of Egyptian peaceful protestor Ahmed Kamel, who faces the threat of extradition to Egypt, MENA Rights Group leads a coalition of 12 human rights organisations calling for his immediate release.

Welcoming the downgrade of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights to grade B

MENA Rights Group, the Committee for Justice and the Egyptian Front for Human Rights welcome the recommendation by the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to downgrade Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), to grade B. The organisations had previously submitted a joint report to the SCA outlining the NCHR's lack of compliance with the Paris Principles.

NGOs call on Saudi Arabia to improve women’s rights under the scrutiny of the CEDAW Committee

MENA Rights Group, Amnesty International, ALQST for Human Rights and the European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights call on Saudi Arabia to improve women's rights in the country and to abide by the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

Lebanon: NGOs call for emergency session at UN rights body to investigate “catastrophic” destruction and targeting of civilians

Alongside 20 Lebanese and international civil society organisations, MENA Rights Group sent a joint letter to UN member states, urging them to hold an emergency session at the UN Human Rights Council to investigate and pursue accountability for Israel's war crimes in Lebanon.

Global coalition of NGOs call for immediate ceasefire in Lebanon

MENA Rights Group joins a global coalition of 50+ NGOs in calling for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and urging the international community to restrict the transfer of arms to Israel.

Saudi authorities must end misuse of administrative and judicial measures against released human rights defenders including Loujain al-Hathloul

MENA Rights Group joins 13 civil society organsiations in calling on Saudi authorities to immediately cease their misuse of judicial and administrative measures against human rights defenders, including the practice of imposing arbitrary travel bans, and to ensure that judicial complaints are addressed in accordance with international legal standards.

Six years of arbitrary detention: call for the immediate release of Hoda Abdelmonem and dropping of fabricated charges

MENA Rights Group joins local and international civil society organisations in calling on Egyptian authorities to release Hoda Abdelmonem, a lawyer and human rights defender arbitrarily detained since 2018.

Urgent call to address human rights violations in Lebanon and the justification of civilian attacks through dehumanising rhetoric

MENA Rights Group joins local civil society organisations in urging the German ambassador to address Israel's attacks against civilians and human rights violations in Lebanon.

Statement condemning Israel’s targeting of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine

MENA Rights Group joins local civil society organisations in condemning Israel's targeting of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine. The statement further calls for the unconditional protection of journalists in civilians as per international law, accountability for Israel's unlawful killings of journalists, and a total arms embargo on Israel.

More than 110 organisations call for US Senate to block arms sales to Israel

MENA Rights Group joins 110+ international, regional and local civil society organisations in calling on US authorities to halt weapon sales to Israel in the wake of its assault on Gaza and Lebanon.