MENA Rights Group and 19 organisations call on Bulgarian authorities to immediately grant asylum to Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi.
MENA Rights Group joins 23 organisations to call on Bahraini authorities to immediately release human rights defender Ali al-Hajee, recently arrested for his social media activity.
MENA Rights Group joins partner organisations in addressing a letter to the King of Bahrain to demand that equal rights be granted to women in transmitting their citizenship to children.
MENA Rights Group joins regional and international civil society in urging UN Member States to address the ongoing repression of civic space in Algeria during the upcoming 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
MENA Rights Group joins 30+ organisations in condemning the Egyptian authorities' decision to block the independent media platform Zawia 3, amidst a broader pattern of restrictions on press freedom and digital rights in Egypt.
MENA Rights Group joins 13 other NGOs in calling on Saudi authorities to refrain from carrying out the death sentence of dozens of prisoners, most Egyptian nationals, held in Tabuk prison.
MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of 25 UK, Egyptian and international organisations in urging British Foreign Secretary David Lammy to use the UN Human Rights Council to draw attention to the pronounced human rights crisis in Egypt. Doing so would support arbitrarily imprisoned British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the groups said.
MENA Rights Group and Safeguard Defenders welcome the recent release of Uyghur activist Yidiresi Aishan, who faced extradition from Morocco to China following his arrest in 2021.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is sponsoring an investment conference in Miami and further whitewashing the country’s egregious human rights record, five human rights groups including MENA Rights Group said today. The PIF’s Future Investment Initiative Institute (FII Institute) Priority Summit is to be held in Miami from February 19 to 21, 2025.
MENA Rights Group leads a coalition of 15 civil society organisations in urging the Arab Interior Ministers' Council to cease its facilitation of arbitrary extraditions of peaceful dissidents and human rights defenders across Arab League countries and to align its legal framework and systems with international human rights law.
MENA Rights Group joins 30 organisations in a joint letter to EU leaders urging them to call on Bahrain to release Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad, two EU-Bahraini nationals who are arbitrarily detained.
Following the announcement made by the Kuwaiti government to amend its Nationality Law and effectively strip thousands of individuals of their citizenship, MENA Rights Group joins 8 other organisations in calling on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately suspend the revocation of nationality of these individuals.