Arab Media: Human rights vs bill limiting media coverage

Committee to Protect Journalists reports that human rights reporting in the Arab media has seen an increase despite efforts to curtail such coverage by repressive Arab regimes.

UN evaluates Egypts human rights performance

Egypt was under fire yesterday at the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodical Review (UPR), an evaluative process established by the UN General Assembly in 2006 to critique countries’ human

Egypt: Ezzat and colleague face prosecutors

Prosecutors charge MB leaders with same host of accusations which members have become accustomed to.

The Digital Dictatorship

It's fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom.

Abbas’ militias kidnap Hamas leader

Militias loyal to Mahmoud Abbas hauls in Hamas leaders and numerous students from different districts.

IOF wound peaceful activists in anti wall marches

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used rubber bullets and gas canisters to disperse peaceful demonstrations the Palestinian villages of Bilin, Ma'sara and Beit Ummar in the West Bank against the separation

Doctors: Using ambulance as ‘cover up’ is criminal

A group of doctors severely condemned the Ministry of Interior for using the properties of the Ministry of Health in arresting a number of MB leaders including Dr. Osama Nasr,

15 day detention order for Nasr and his companions.

Prosecutor General orders a 15 day detention order to Dr Ossama Nasr and his colleagues who were arrested last Thursday in Beheira.

Arab Reform Bulletin: New Format, New Release

After two years as a monthly publication, the Arab Reform Bulletin, a product of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has altered its format and will now issue one or

Egypt: Female Judges Barred from Council Positions

Dozens of women and human rights organizations staged a protest on Thursday in front of the Egyptian State Council’s Cairo headquarters in reaction to a recent decision by the Council