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MENA Rights Group provides a summary of the UNSG's main concerns over reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA region, particularly in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen.

On September 17, 2025, MENA Rights Group, the Gulf Center for Human Rights and ALQST for Human Rights delivered a joint oral statement at the 60th session of the Human Rights Council, during the interactive dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, highlighting the continued use of arbitrary detention by Saudi Arabia and the lack of implementation of all Opinions addressed to the Kingdom since 2016.

MENA Rights Group and ALQST for Human Rights submit information about the status of 49 individuals subject of Opinions issued by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and urge the group of expert to initiate a follow up procedure with the government of Saudi Arabia.

MENA Rights Group joins 22 other human rights NGOs in an urgent appeal to save Egyptian lawyer and human rights defender Hoda Abdel-Moneim, whose health has critically deteriorated after nearly seven years in pretrial detention.

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 […]