The Moroccan government has responded to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on the events in Al-Hoceima by blasting it as full of “unfounded allegations”. The Inter-Ministerial Delegation for...

A Saudi-led coalition warplane has killed 12 civilians in Yemen, Al Jazeera reported. The airstrike was executed northeast of the capital, Sana’a, hitting the Hareeb Al-Qarameesh district. A vehicle...

Human Rights Watch today condemned the arrest by Saudi authorities of some 30 clerics, intellectuals and activists this week as “a coordinated crackdown on dissent”. The arrests were made...

Millions of dollars of aid intended for Syrian child refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have gone missing and multiple governments and agencies have been unable to account for...

Israeli occupying authorities confiscated 48,000 shekels ($13,500) earlier today from the family of an imprisoned Palestinian, which was meant to fund the construction of his family’s demolished home, according...

Saudi Ambassador in Geneva Abdulaziz Al-Wasil said that time was not right to form an independent commission of inquiry into human rights violations in Yemen. Commenting on a call...

In a press release issued today, Human Rights Watch claimed that the Jordanian authorities have informed the Centre for Defending Freedom of Journalists that its registration class does not...

Israel’s largest banks are funding illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, even though they are under no obligation to do so by law, according to a report...

Egypt has dismissed a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that described torture of political prisoners in the country as amounting to “a crime against humanity”, and has called...

After being blocked for 48 hours, Human Rights Watch is now accessible again in Egypt. Last Thursday, the organisation announced that the Egyptian authorities had blocked its website a...

Amnesty International has condemned Egypt’s online crackdown against rights groups, calling it an attempt to “stamp out online criticism of their human rights record”. In a press release issued...

The Saudi-led coalition is dodging international liability for its airstrikes on Yemen, Human Rights Watch reported. The organisation contacted members of the coalition to release information on their own...

In response to a Human Rights Watch report on torture in Egypt, Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi said: “Defending what is happening in Egypt is disgraceful”. In an entry on...

Two reports by two international organisations condemning Egypt under Al-Sisi’s rule were issued yesterday. These organisations are Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders. In its report, the former...

Allegations of Egypt’s endemic and systematic torture of political prisoners constitute a “crime against humanity,” according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday. In a 63-page...

Fifty-seven human rights groups have demanded that a United Nations inquiry takes place on abuses in Yemen, Human Rights Watch reported. The human rights groups called upon the UN...