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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...

Fourteen Shia Saudi zitizens are at "imminent risk of execution" after Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upheld their death sentences in an "unfair trial" based on confessions made under torture over protest-related...

Human rights groups have accused the Iraqi authorities of issuing arrest warrants for at least 15 lawyers simply because they were representing clients suspected of being members of Daesh....

Israel is maintaining a two-tier system in Jerusalem, Human Rights Watch has warned, adding that this is illustrated by the fact that the residency of thousands of Palestinians in...

The United Arab Emirates currently runs 18 "secret prisons" in Yemen, the French newspaper Le Monde has revealed. An investigation published by the newspaper stated that the UAE-run prisons...

Saudi authorities should "immediately" clarify whether they have imposed movement restrictions on the former crown prince, Mohammad Bin Nayef, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded in an official letter...

Some 15,000 civilians in Somalia were forced to flee their homes in May after fighters belonging to Al-Shabaab raided them, Human Rights Watch reported yesterday. Satellite imagery analysis and...

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International yesterday called on Morocco to reject confessions extracted under torture or ill-treatment during police interrogations involving Sahrawi political prisoners. The Rabat court of appeal...

Human Rights Watch has accused Iraqi security forces of forcibly relocating at least 170 families of alleged Daesh members to a closed "rehabilitation camp" as a form of collective...

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher has called on the UAE to cooperate with the commission to investigate its secret prisons in Aden and Al-Mukalla in Yemen, Al Jazeera...

International actors and public figures in Qatar have slammed a 13-point list of demands — including one for the closure of the Al Jazeera news network — issued by...

The Yemeni government on Saturday formed a panel to investigate reports about secret prisons in Yemen where inmates have been tortured. The panel will produce a report in two...

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have criticised the Moroccan police's handling of the arrest of a popular protest leader who was "severely" beaten and verbally abused. Nasser Zefzafi,...

Human Rights Watch said it had received more than 1,750 complaints from Gulf citizens who had been affected by the severing of diplomatic ties and blockade on Qatar. During...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Egyptian authorities to respect the rights of the former president, Mohamed Morsi, who has been held in a prison following his...

A US military investigator said on Wednesday that a March 16 air strike near Aleppo, Syria, was a valid and legal attack on a meeting of al Qaeda fighters...

East Libyan forces have targeted rival brigades with a series of air strikes in the southern region of Jufra, officials and witnesses said on Sunday, three days after dozens...