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...

Human Rights Watch has said that the detention of Ola Al-Qaradawi is “unlawful” and called for her immediate release. Ola was arrested in June 2017 along with her husband...

Western countries and donors must ensure that any money, humanitarian aid, or assistance sent to Syria in order to help reconstruct the war-torn country is not used by President...

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has praised Egypt as an “example of stability” in the Middle East thanks to its close ties with the Gulf countries, and reiterated his...

Egyptian authorities are carrying out  “discreet assassinations” against prisoners and political opponents of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, most of whom belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, and it is unlikely...

When US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman commented on Israel’s “right” to annex land in the occupied West Bank — as a dutiful Zionist he called it “Judea and...

Egypt on Tuesday slammed tweets by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the circumstances of the death of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first freely-elected president, during a...

Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi died from a sudden heart attack during a court session, state television and Reuters reported early on Tuesday, citing a medical source. The source said...

Migrant domestic workers are seen as less than human in Lebanon, the director of a new film that exposes widespread abuse of such women said ahead of a screening...

Speaker of the Egyptian House of Representatives Ali Abdel-Aal stated that Human Rights Watch (HRW) is a “politicised” organisation and is in violation of its charter. Abdel-Aal indicated at...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) today called on Israel to explain the nature of its forces’ involvement in Egypt’s crackdown in North Sinai, accusing Cairo of “committing violations” against civilians....

'The Egyptian military and police have carried out systematic and widespread arbitrary arrests—including of children—enforced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial killings, collective punishment, and forced evictions'