Bahaa Salama, the Brotherhood’s Lawyer in Suez, asserted that violations of rights were practiced on the detainees who were prevented from contacting their relatives. They were also denied food inside

Twenty five states in the Council of Human Rights voted on Friday, 16 October, 2009, in favor of adopting the recommendations made in the Goldstone report, six states voted against

When a person who happens to be a member of an established religion, say a Christian or a Jew, commits a crime, the media refers to him as a criminal

CAIRO: In a move that has already received much praise from human rights advocates in Egypt, police Col. Akram Soliman has been sentenced to five years in prison after being

The Middle East International has restarted its printing press after a six-year hiatus, releasing a free PDF issue online in commemoration. According to the Arabist, MEI offers “long articles and

Sadly human rights violations by Egyptian police and security forces are today all too common and have beginnings well beyond the time of Nasser. This long sordid history of abuse

Five families of Palestinian political prisoners in the city of Al-Khalil appealed to all officials and human rights organization to intervene with the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah and get

The Ezzat family appealed to the human rights groups and all those concerned with prisoners' affairs to pressure the Israeli prisons authority (IPA) into bringing its two twin sons to

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has charged that the Israeli occupation authority's (IOA) continued demolition of Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem was in violation of international laws.

The Palestinian Authority appears to be attempting an about turn on endorsing the Goldstone report that criticises Israel's conduct in its war on Gaza. The Palestinian representative to the United