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.
On the first anniversary of his arrest, 17 human rights organisations condemn the arrest and extradition of Egyptian–Turkish poet and dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi, describing it as an unlawful act of transnational repression.
MENA Rights Group and ALQST for Human Rights address an open letter to Mr. Alexandre Zouev, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism and Executive Director of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT), expressing human rights concerns on the UN office's new agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Presidency of State Security (PSS).
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights and MENA Rights Group have submitted the case of Yassine Chabli, who died in police custody in 2022, to the UN Committee Against Torture, citing evidence of torture and major flaws in the official investigation. The organisations denounce the authorities’ failure to classify the violence as torture and warn that the handling of the case undermines confidence in Morocco’s justice system.
MENA Rights Group welcomes the recommendations made by the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to downgrade the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) to “B” status following its special review during the SCA’s 46th session, held from October 20 to 31, 2025.
