The Paris-Dakar Rally, inaugurated in 1978 and now known as The Dakar Rally, or simply The Dakar, was originally staged from Paris to Senegal in West Africa. After being...

Human rights Watch said on Monday that there will be no justice in the assassination case of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as long as the person who ordered the...

Human Rights Watch yesterday called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately provide urgent medical assistance to female detainee Aisha Al-Shater, allow her family to visit her, and release her...

Israel has a long record of camouflaging the truth where Palestine is concerned. Integral to this, in recent years, has been the growing war against human rights groups documenting...

Social media giant Facebook is actively limiting Palestinian freedom of speech by targeting criticism of Israel on its platform, Human Rights Watch has warned in its new report today....

Iraq and its security forces have been accused of committing a series of massacres against protesters in the capital Baghdad by the UK-based Human Rights Watch. In particular, the...

Sudanese Attorney General Taj Al-Sir Ali Al-Hebr yesterday lifted the immunity from a number of officials accused of killing protesters during the revolution that started one year ago, Anadolu...

Despite many attempts to challenge the court's decision

Egyptian authorities have been carrying out arrests, house raids, interrogations, and travel bans against relatives of dissidents who live abroad, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday. HRW noted that the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report, on Sunday, in which it pointed out that the massacre the Sudanese security services committed against demonstrators in Khartoum in June amounts...

The Arab Spring did not start in Egypt, but it was there where it ended. In 2011, Egyptian citizens took to the streets to protest the rule of Hosni...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Iraqi security forces of firing tear gas canisters directly at protesters’ heads which led to the death of 16 protesters since Oct. 25,...

Most global democracy indices rate Israel as the most democratic state, or even the only democratic state, in the Middle East. Freedom House and many others have also given...

A Palestinian employee of Amnesty International has been handed a travel ban by Israel as he was trying to enter Jordan to attend a relative’s funeral. Israeli occupation authorities...

The “maximum pressure” strategy of the Trump administration to impose broad sanctions on Iran poses a serious threat to the Iranian people’s right to health and access to essential...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday warned European countries against transferring hundreds of Daesh members from the prisons of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to Iraq. HRW expressed concerns that...

Authorities in Bahrain are denying prisoners adequate health care, Human Rights Watch warned in a statement on Tuesday. HRW said Bahrain’s prison authorities arbitrarily deprive prisoners of urgent health...

The so-called allies of the US in northern Syria, YPG/PKK terror group, has been slammed by human rights groups as well as the UN for its compulsive practice of...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called, Wednesday, on the Saudi government to “immediately seek justice” in connection with its role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi...

It is exactly one year since Jamal Khashoggi walked into Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul where he was met by a team of Saudi assassins, hand-picked presumably by the...

Last week Israel launched its latest attack against Palestinian human rights workers. Israeli army thugs raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned, Thursday, US President Donald Trump’s remarks on Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, during their recent meeting at the United Nations. In a statement posted on its...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday accused the Iraqi Appeals Courts of either ignoring allegations of torture or relying on uncorroborated confessions. In a recent report, HRW said: “Some of...

The New York-based Human Rights Watch has reported today that at least three Syrians deported by the Lebanese authorities have already been arrested by the Syrian regime upon their...

The Iraqi government has deprived thousands of children, whose parents are suspected of belonging to Daesh from their right to education, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. Children born or...

Human Rights Watch called on Sudan’s new leaders to take real steps to ensure accountability for past human rights violation and prioritise justice and accountability. “The new leaders, who...

The UN has postponed a conference on torture that was set to take place in Cairo at the beginning of September after a wave of criticism from human rights...

Ethiopian migrants to Saudi Arabia are suffering “indescribable hardships and abuses,” according to the latest report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), which described the “exploitation and torture” they were...

The United Arab Emirates has released three activists who were jailed on state security charges, two rights groups said on Thursday, reports Reuters. Online activist Osama al-Najjar and Othman...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed yesterday that the Syrian regime is meddling in the delivery of aid in order to divert it to “fund its atrocities, punish opponents, and...

Israel’s Supreme Court has delayed a landmark hearing which would have seen the Regional Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Omar Shakir, deported from Israel over his alleged support...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday condemned the Kuwaiti authorities for “unlawfully” returning eight Egyptians for allegedly being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood group. The rights organisation warned that the...