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MENA Rights Group and nine organisations raise alarm about the Saudi Human Rights Commission and its use as a whitewashing tool of the Kingdom.

A coalition of human rights NGOs warns that electing Egypt to the Human Rights Council would reward brutal repression and undermine the credibility of the international human rights system.

MENA Rights Group welcomes findings of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention holding the United States of America and the United Arab Emirates jointly responsible for the detention of Afghan refugees in the Emirates Humanitarian City.

We, the undersigned organizations, strongly condemn the Egyptian security services’ targeting of minors for their digital activity through online gaming platforms. This alarming practice has resulted in children being arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, denied due process, and reportedly facing torture and other ill-treatment while in detention. These grave human rights violations contravene both Egypt’s national […]

MENA Rights Group leads a campaign calling on all participants and sponsors to withdraw from the 2025 “World Summit on Counter-Terrorism,” organised by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University, amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The undersigned organizations condemn the ongoing judicial and security harassment of Mada Masr, one of the last operating independent media platforms in Egypt. The latest incident involved the summoning of Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah for interrogation before the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) on Monday, 4 August 2025, in Case No. 6182 of 2025 (SSSP). This interrogation […]

We, the undersigned organisations, express deep concern over the continued arbitrary detention of the Saudi human rights defender Mohammed al-Bejadi more than two years beyond his sentence. His continuing detention, along with countless others, demonstrates that despite a recent spate of prisoner releases, the Saudi authorities’ severe repression of rights activists and critics remains. We call for his […]

Face à une grave atteinte aux droits fondamentaux d’une citoyenne algérienne engagée pour la vérité et la justice, nous, membres du Collectif Solidarité Algérie, avec le soutien d’organisations internationales, dénonçons une dérive autoritaire inacceptable et rendons public ce qui suit : Nassera Dutour, présidente du Collectif des Familles de Disparus en Algérie (CFDA) et mère […]

Pattern of enforced disappearances at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid points, NGOs report

The undersigned organizations are extremely concerned over the continued enforced disappearance of Turkish-Egyptian poet and political dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi for more than 200 days. Abdulrahman Yusuf was arrested in Lebanon on 28 December 2024 and forcibly extradited to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 8 January 2025, in flagrant violation of due process guarantees […]

PEN America and 10 human rights organizations wrote to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Motaz Zahran urging him to raise our concerns about the detention of poet and PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award honoree Galal el-Behairy with relevant authorities in Cairo. Your Excellency, We, the undersigned human rights organizations, are deeply alarmed by the ongoing detention […]

H.M. King Mohammed VI  Rabat, Morocco  July 29, 2025  Your Majesty,  We are writing to request that the government of Morocco immediately release human rights defender Nasser Zefzafi on humanitarian grounds so he can care for his elderly father, who was recently diagnosed with stage IV cancer. Releasing Nasser on or before July 30 would […]