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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.

M15 accused of complicity in torture

According to Binyam’s lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, senior government officials are legally obliged to ensure that staff is trained properly in accordance with the United nations’ convention against torture.

Egypt pressed to lift emergency laws

"The state of emergency, which has been in force since 1981, has had a negative impact on human rights," French ambassador Jean-Baptiste Mattei told the UN Human Rights Council during

Human rights coverage spreads, despite government pushback

The media in the Middle East loved the Intifada. Every detail of Israel’s violations of human rights in the late 1980s in the West Bank and Gaza appeared in the

The charges against the Egyptian government for violations of Human Rights

The present report is a summary of 37 stakeholders’ submissions1 to the universal periodic review. It follows the structure of the general guidelines adopted by the Human Rights Council. It

I was savagely beaten without knowing the reason.

The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) once again highlights the issue of human rights abuses by the Western backed Palestinian Authority in the Occupied West Bank. It seems to Intelligence blasphemy

Sectarian Tensions

Tensions remain high following a shooting that left six Copts and one police officer dead on January 6,

For Israel, a Reckoning

The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity

Egypt: The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention confirms the arbitrary nature of Dr Islam al

Dr Islam Sobhy Al Mazeny, an Egyptian doctor and poet, was arrested on 7 April 2007 by the Egyptian State Security Intelligence (SSI) as he was organizing his departure to

Arrest and torture of 5 individuals in Bani Suef

On 13 December 2009, the Egyptian State Security Intelligence (SSI) raided the houses and arrested Mohamed Omar Mohamed Omar,