On the morning of 25 January 2010, local newspapers in Lebanon reported news of the death of an UNHCR-recognized Egyptian refugee by the name of Mahmoud Salama (56) in Rashaya

Wa’ed society for detainees and ex-detainees on Monday hailed Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya for declaring that 2010 would be a year for prisoners, saying such a step would contribute to

(IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to detain 47 of the just-under 200 remaining prisoners at Guantanamo without trial indefinitely is drawing scorn from legal experts and human rights

Egyptian prisons are notorious for their bad conditions of detention, the widespread practice of torture and the arbitrary nature of the detention of many of their inmates.

Militias loyal to former PA chief Mahmoud Abbas kidnapped five Hamas supporters over the past 24 hours including Sheikh Maher Al-Kharraz, one of its prominent leaders in Nablus.

The use of the Internet in Egypt as a platform for political activism has been the topic of discussion in various political circles and in the media.

Cairo's Criminal Court issued a release order to 42 members of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement who were arrested earlier this year

Detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement have threatened to go on a hunger strike in objection to the poor conditions and negligence of the administration to detainees in Damanhur's

MP Hesham Alady condemned the insistence of the ruling regime's detentions of innocent members of society.

Prosecutor general Adel Emara ordered a 15 day detention to 7 members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement who were arrested at dawn