HRW: Prominent Saudi Women Activists Arrested

Saudi authorities have arrested the internationally recognized women’s rights activist Samar Badawi and an Eastern Province activist, Nassima ...

HRW: Bahrain: Hundreds Stripped of Citizenship

Bahraini authorities should restore citizenship to hundreds of nationals whose citizenship they revoked through executive orders ...

Reuters: Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist detained as driving ban lifted

Reuters: Saudi Arabia has detained prominent women’s rights advocate Hatoon al-Fassi, widening a crackdown that ...

Reuters: U.N. rights experts tell Bahrain to release jailed activists

United Nations human rights experts called on Bahrain on Thursday to release detained activists, end ...

Reuters: Saudi Arabia arrests prominent cleric Safar al-Hawali: activists

Saudi Arabia has detained influential religious scholar Safar al-Hawali and three of his sons, activists ...

Amnesty: Disappearances and torture in southern Yemen detention facilities must be investigated as war crimes

Justice remains elusive a year after a network of secret prisons was first exposed in southern Yemen, ...

Reuters: Bahrain’s top Shi’ite cleric allowed to seek treatment abroad

Bahrain’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric, who has been accused of inciting sectarian strife and has ...

Reuters: Bahrain appeals acquittal of opposition leaders

Reuters: Bahrain’s public prosecutor has appealed a court ruling that acquitted three senior leaders of ...

Reuters: France seeks to calm Bahrain after rights criticism

France sought to assuage Bahrain on Friday after rare criticism by its ambassador to the ...

Washington Urges Manama’s Prosecutors ‘Not To Pursue Appeal’ Against Sheikh Ali Salman’s Acquittal

Washington is urging state prosecutors in Manama “not to pursue an appeal” against Thursday’s court ...