Eygpt’s 2010 parliamentary elections will go down in history as a blatant fraud and crime against democracy and the people it represents.

As the country awaits the Egyptian government’s official announcement of results from Sunday’s parliamentary elections, unofficial results show — not surprisingly — that the ruling party crushed the opposition in

Elections to Egypt's People's Assembly on November 28, 2010, were marred by reports that opposition supporters were barred from polling stations and subjected to violence, Human Rights Watch said today.

Police released Joe Stork deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division after he and his translator were briefly detained at police headquarters in Samanoud in

Paul Larudee considers the implications for Israel and its armed forces of the leaking of the details of 200 Israeli military personnel who participated in the invasion of Gaza of

King Abdullah II of Jordan was urged by US Human rights watch to free a student who was detained and accused of writing a poem criticizing the ruler.

The recent arrest of an Israeli journalist who allegedly leaked materials to a reporter, and the gag order that followed, is just the latest in a long string of Israel's

Nasser Rego considers the legal and political framework of the escalating ethnic cleansing of the Negev – or Naqab – by the Israeli authorities and argues that, given the fracturing

Jonathan Cook reports from the Negev village of al-Araqib, which has been ethnically cleansed by the Israeli authorities twice in a few days as part of a plan financed by

Stuart Littlewood reviews Norman Finkelstein’s book, This Time We Went Too Far, which “pulls together the facts surrounding Israel's blitzkrieg on Gaza” and “plots the long lead-up and the reverberating