At least 40 human rights workers, lawyers and political activists have been arrested in Egypt since late October 2018, Human Rights Watch have revealed. Most of the people were...

At least 20 refugees that have returned to Syria from Lebanon have been killed by the regime and their allied forces, Lebanese Caretaker Minister for Refugee Affairs Mouin Merehbi...

The Tunisian military court yesterday sentenced parliamentarian and blogger Yassine Ayari to three months in prison for “insulting” the military establishment. Ayari said on Facebook that he has ten...

The US is transferring foreign nationals who joined Daesh from Syria to Iraq despite the risk of torture and unfair trails, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has announced. At four...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked ten questions to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, all of them related to the human rights situation in the Kingdom and Riyadh’s...

The news that the US and the Palestinian Authority are planning for CIA Director Gina Haspell to visit Ramallah comes just as Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report...

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security accused Human Rights Watch of ignoring the reality and facts about the situation of freedoms in the Gaza Strip. “With great...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has claimed in a new report that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas routinely arrest and torture opponents and critics, in what have been described...

Egypt has issued arrest warrants for two Egyptian lawyers, who are suspected to have been disappeared by government authorities since mid-September, for failing to adhere to the terms of...

Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that the Syrian regime is preventing internally displaced people in areas which were previously held by opposition forces from returning to their homes...

Egypt must “immediately reveal” the whereabouts of prominent human rights defender and lawyer, Ezzat Ghoneim, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday. Ghoneim has been in custody since March and...

Iraq’s mistreatment of its Sunni population has come under scrutiny following a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which found that thousands of mainly Sunni Iraqi men were arbitrarily arrested...

It is sometimes hard to see why the war in Syria gets so much coverage in Britain, while the war in Yemen is all but ignored; it feels like...

Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against five human rights activists from the kingdom’s Eastern Province currently on trial in a secretive terrorism court, groups including...

Human Rights Watch said two former detainees and the father of a man who died in detention have provided details of ill-treatment, torture and death in security centres run...

The massacre resulted from a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the Yemeni city of Saada, which left dozens of civilians and children killed, must be “a watershed in the history...

Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women’s rights activists, the latest in a government crackdown on activists, clerics and journalists, an international rights group said today. Human Rights Watch...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday requested Iraq investigate claims that its forces are torturing Daesh suspects in prison, adding that judges are convicting defendants based on coerced confessions. “Torture...

The Iraqi government yesterday lifted the weeks-long ban on social media websites amid protests in the capital Baghdad and other southern provinces, local media has reported. “Iraq’s National Communication...

Iraqi security forces used excessive and unnecessary lethal force against protesters in the southern city of Basra, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today. In a statement, the New York-based...

What: Israel waged aerial, ground and naval war on Lebanon’s Hezbollah Where: Southern Lebanon and northern Israel When: 12 July – 14 August 2006 What happened? Between 12 July...

The “escalation of pressure” on Syrian refugees to leave Lebanon and return home has been denounced by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report today. The rights group listed...

The latest Human Rights Watch (HRW) report titled “Israel: Apparent War Crimes in Gaza” commences with a sentence that mars the rest of its investigation and analysis. “Israeli forces’...

The Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee discussed on Tuesday the government’s decision to revoke the work permit of Human Rights Watch (HRW) official Omar Shakir, with one speaker describing the...

Human Rights Watch yesterday called on the Palestinian Authority to issue the necessary medical treatment approvals for patients in the Gaza Strip immediately. In a statement, the organisation stressed...

Human Rights Watch called on the Bahraini authorities to drop charges of “tweeting” against human rights activists including Nabeel Rajab. The organisation confirmed that the charges against Rajab are...

The European Parliament yesterday condemned human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and called for the immediate release of all detainees including activists Nawaf Al-Rasheed and Raef Badawi and stop...

A prominent Emirati human rights activist was yesterday handed a ten-year prison sentence for using his social media accounts to allegedly spread “false information” and cause “hatred and sectarianism”....

A Saudi court sentenced Mohammed Al-Huthaify to five years in prison for allegedly insulting allied countries on Twitter. Al Jazeera quoted an unnamed source as saying that the Saudi...

Many of Israel’s largest banks are providing financial services that help support, maintain and expand illegal settlements by funding their construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Human Rights Watch...

The Egyptian army has “vastly expanded” the destruction of homes, commercial buildings and farms in Egypt’s North Sinai region since 9 February 2018, a report by Human Rights Watch...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have condemned the arrests of Saudi activists defending women’s rights in the kingdom. The two organizations called on the Saudi authorities to release...