UN experts plan to probe war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza

This UN investigation team, which is composed of four investigators and headed by former UN war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, were appointed last month and held their first closed-door meeting

Haqqi Centre Urges International Organizations to Defend MB Students

“Haqqi Centre For Human Rights” in their issued statement today titled “Save Fayoum Student”, has condemned the circumistances to which detained Fayoum students were exposed to.

Police Officer in Aswan Forcibly Detains A Citizen

The young man Muhammad Gaber El-Sayeh returned back to confinement in the police station of “Edfo” in preparation of his release to find Captain Hassan Nagib re-arresting him in order

Yemeni Press and journalists are in danger

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) strongly condemned the rising police action taken by the Yemeni authorities against several independent newspapers and journalists. The last action was confiscating

EOHR calls for the release of demonstrators in the case of gas exportation

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) condemns the kidnapping of some human rights activists before State Council in a clear violation of the right to peaceful assembly and freedom

Showing Its Twitter Envy, Facebook Gets Serious About SMS

It appears that over the past few weeks, Facebook has widely activated a feature that allows you to text Facebook to update your status, message your friends, or send a

A study on the situation of women, children and the Egyptian village

This report issue No. 29 of LCHR’s Civil Society series. It was issued in order to get acquainted with the situation of male and female peasants from field stories and

100 ’non-combatants’ killed in Afghan strikes

An Afghan provincial police chief said Wednesday that investigations showed more than 100 "non-combatants" had been killed in US-led coalition air strikes in western Afghanistan

’Dozens of bodies’ found in Afghan area hit by US air strikes

THE international Red Cross has confirmed finding "dozens of bodies" in graves and rubble in Farah province, where Afghan officials allege US bombs killed civilians.

Azzam Tamimi Provides the Western World with an Intimate Portrait of Hamas

Azzam Tamimi’s Hamas: The Unwritten Chapters was released in the U.K. by Hurst Publishing shortly after the collapse of a Palestinian National Unity Government that recognized the electoral victory of