Amnesty: UAE: Ahmed Mansoor enters fourth week of hunger strike to protest unfair 10-year sentence

Responding to confirmed reports that prominent Emirati human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor, has been on ...

HRW: UN: A Call to Free Saudi Women Activists

A joint statement by 36 countries on March 7, 2019 calling on Saudi Arabia to improve its ...

HRW: Saudi Arabia: Women’s Rights Activists Charged

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecution agency announced on March 1, 2019 that the country’s leading women’s rights ...

Amnesty: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: REVIEW OF 2018

Suppression of freedom of expression on political issues remained widespread, with many high-profile dissidents imprisoned ...

CNN: Al-Araibi imprisonment: Australia cancels Thailand training camp

The Australian Football Federation (FFA) has canceled a proposed training camp in Thailand for its ...

Open Letter to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-Ocha: Release Refugee Hakeem Al-Araibi and Allow Him Safe Passage to Australia

Dear Prime Minister Prayut Chan-Ocha, I am writing to you from the Asia Pacific Refugee ...

Amnesty: Bahrain: Five-year prison sentence over tweets upheld for Nabeel Rajab

Responding to the news that Bahrain’s Court of Cassation has upheld the conviction of Nabeel ...

Reuters: Bahrain’s top court upholds sentence against activist Nabeel Rajab

Bahrain’s high court upheld a five-year jail sentence against activist Nabeel Rajab on Monday for ...

HRW: UAE: Release Imprisoned Jordanian Journalist

The United Arab Emirates should immediately release Tayseer al-Najjar, a Jordanian journalist who, on December 13, 2018, ...

HRW: Britain Should Stand Up for Saudi Women Activists

Last week, the British Foreign Office celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human ...