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On 14 May 2025, the Jordanian Media Commission issued an order for ISPs to block at least 12 news websites, most of which are independent media outlets. The decision lacked an official detailed announcement, including the legal basis for the blocking. Instead, authorities provided vague justifications through media channels, invoking broad and imprecise terms such as […]

On May 21, 2025, MENA Rights Group joined 33 human rights organisations in sending an urgent letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer KC, urging immediate action for the release of British-Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Alaa completed his unjust prison sentence in Egypt in September 2024, yet remains arbitrarily detained. His mother, Laila […]

MRG joins Palestinian civil society and 200+ international humanitarian and human rights organisations in an urgent call to action: The manufactured famine in Gaza must end, the siege must be lifted, and humanitarian crossings must be opened.

MENA Rights Group, alongside 26 civil society organizations, calls on UN Human Rights Council member and observer states to urge Bahrain to release arbitrarily detained activists and death row inmates ahead of Eid al-Adha.

Everyone is a target. From journalists to poets.

MENA Rights Group, with different civil society organisations, call on the Saudi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani, after being detained for peacefully expressing her opinion on social media.

On March 7, 2025, MENA Rights Group co-hosted a side event during the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The event focused on the shrinking civic space in Algeria since the visit in the country of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, in 2023. The discussion coincided with the presentation of the Special Rapporteur’s country visit report.

On the sidelines of the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, MENA Rights Group co-organised a side event bringing together civil society actors and the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism to discuss concerning trends of counter-terrorism abuse and its negative impact on human rights across the MENA region.

MENA Rights Group joins 30+ civil society organisations in addressing an open letter to the United Kingdom and the European Union to call for the release of Egyptian poet Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi.

MENA Rights Group, alongside 17 international and national human rights organizations and the families of the victims of the August 2020 port blast, is calling on the Prime Minister and the Justice Minister to take all necessary steps to ensure that the investigation into the blast proceeds without any interference or obstruction.

MENA Rights Group joins 59 partners in solidarity with Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby.

During its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on January 27, 2025, Iraq received 263 recommendations from 93 States on various issues including its human rights framework, the right to freedom of expression, and the death penalty.