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MENA Rights Group joins 19 NGOs in calling on the Government of Lebanon to recognise the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over crimes committed on its territory since October 8, 2023, to ensure accountability and justice for victims.

MENA Rights Group joins 40 human rights organisations calling on Egyptian authorities to immediately release prominent activist, poet and political writer Ahmed Douma from pretrial detention.

EuroMed Rights, Human Rights Watch and MENA Rights Group have addressed a letter to Pope XIV ahead of his historic visit to Algeria, scheduled from 13 to 15 April 2026. In the letter, the organisations urge him to raise, both in private with the Algerian authorities and in his public communications, a number of pressing human rights concerns documented in the country. These relate, in particular, to violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief affecting religious minorities, the ongoing crackdown on civic space, and the serious violations perpetrated against refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants.

MENA Rights Group joins 10 other NGOs in an oral statement delivered by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, raising concern over two proposed bills that would expand the scope of the death penalty in Israel.

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an Opinion qualifying the detention of Saudi protestors Mohammad Labbad and Mohammad Abdullah al-Faraj as arbitrary and in violation of international human rights standards.

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an Opinion finding that the detention and death sentences of three Egyptian nationals by Saudi authorities for drug-related crimes was arbitrary and that their subsequent executions amounted to an arbitrary deprivation of life.

À la suite d’une plainte déposée par MENA Rights Group, le Groupe de travail sur la détention arbitraire des Nations unies a rendu un avis qualifiant la détention du défenseur des droits humains et de l’environnement Tahar Larbi d’arbitraire car contraire aux normes internationales en matière de droits humains.

MENA Rights Group joins 80 other NGOs in calling on UN regional groups to field more candidates than available seats for the elections to the Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) Committee on Non-Governmental Organisations in April.

The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) and MENA Rights Group urgently call for the opening of an independent, impartial and transparent investigation into the deaths of Abdelhakim Derfidi, Abdessamade Oubalat and Mohamed Rahali, killed on October 1, 2025 in Leqliâa when the Royal Gendarmerie fired live ammunition at GenZ212 movement protesters.

MENA Rights Group joins human rights organisations in raising serious concerns over GANHRI's decision to maintain "A status" for Egypt's National Council for Human Rights.

During Lebanon’s Universal Periodic Review on January 19, 2026, MENA Rights Group submitted an alternative report documenting torture, refoulement, and transnational repression. On the same day, MENA Rights Group and partners held a side event in Geneva to discuss these findings. The issues raised were reflected in several recommendations made to Lebanon by UN Member States.

Al-Qaradawi Arbitrarily Detained in Near-Incommunicado Conditions