‘The state has become a whale that swallows everything it finds and is never satisfied’

It was an ordinary Monday morning in Jordan when they came for me. At around 11:30am on 15 November, the doorbell rang. I wasn't expecting anyone, but to my...

On 1 June Abeer Hassan's brother left the house to deliver some cash to a colleague, a short trip around the block that should have taken a maximum of...

Palestinian photojournalist Mohammed Ateeq was covering the Israeli attacks against worshippers in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque last week when the security forces shot him in the back with...

Palestinian journalist Alaa Al-Rimawi began a hunger strike after twelve Israeli armed forces raided his home on 21 April, 2021, in Ramallah after midnight, confiscated his mobile phone and...

In February the Egyptian government tried to sell its draft personal status law on a clause that would see men who did not inform their first wife they were...

On 20 February 2021 Manar Abouelnaga and her son appeared in front of Egypt's state security prosecution two years after their forcible disappearance. Al-Baraa was just three-years-old. The house...

Across Palestine, schools are closed to try and stem the spread of the virus, but Al-Maleh Elementary has struggled to offer remote learning, because of the lack of internet and electricity in the village.

A Palestinian journalist and activist has been detained for the fifth time by the Israeli authorities after being released earlier this year from an eight-month term of administrative detention,...

On 27 September, Egypt's public prosecution ordered that 79 children detained since the start of the demonstrations be released. All the children were aged between 10 and 15 and...

When Ibrahim was arrested it was a summer's day in Arish, the capital of North Sinai, and he was wearing a light t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Two...

The first time Sara Mohani was arrested security forces lined her up against a wall and described her body in intimate detail. "If we find any photo of the...

Shortly after the profile of a well-known Sinai activist appeared in an Egyptian newspaper, the intelligence services called the journalist who interviewed him: "Why have you published a picture...

Four years on from his arrest one of Egypt’s child political prisoners Haitham Abdel Rahim recalls 50 days of torture.

Sanaa Abdelgawad and her daughter Asmaa Beltagi were in front of Rabaa's main stage when security forces advanced on the square. The area was immersed in smoke and Sanaa...

In 2008 Mariam Ahmed and her family set off east from her homeland Egypt and landed in Saudi Arabia where they became part of the Kingdom's two million strong...

In March 2015 masked men broke down the door of Khaled Saddouma's house, entered his son's bedroom where he was sleeping and dragged him out of the house without...

On 9 March Manar Abu Naga was forcibly disappeared from her home in Alexandria along with her husband Omar and their one-year-old son Braa. "One of the neighbours told...

The family of Abdelrahman Attia have appealed for his death sentence to be suspended after the court issued a final verdict ordering his execution alongside five other Egyptian men,...

Twenty-four-year old Ayatollah Ashraf was arrested from her home in the Qalyubiyah governorate of Egyptian capital Cairo on 3 October 2018. Egyptian security forces broke into the family's home...

Khaled Hamdy was arrested on the 27 March 2014 from his home in Egypt. He had been working as a production manager for Egypt 25, a TV channel founded...

At just 26 years-old, Yousra Badwan is Palestine's youngest female mayor after being elected to the post in the Azzun municipality of the occupied West Bank earlier this year....