The Egyptian State Security Prosecution is expected to hold its second hearing of pressed charges against five prominent members of the country's leading opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday

Amnesty International deplores Tuesday’s renewal of the state of emergency by the Egyptian authorities, who rushed through parliament a two-year extension to emergency laws that have been used to crackdown

The Egyptian authorities should immediately cease deportation proceedings against two refugees from Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today.

A senior United Nations High Commissioner for Refugess (UNHCR) official said on Friday that the Lebanese government should move toward legalizing the status of non-Palestinian refugees in the country.

Naseer Hamoud, the regional director of the Doha-based IIMSAM organization affiliated with the UN, expressed fears of Israeli intention to use the system of the Inquisition courts against the Palestinian

The UN's top humanitarian official, John Holmes, has criticized Israel for linking the 2006 capture of an Israeli soldier to its blockade of Gaza

Cairo: The Egyptian government has denied all observations made by the United Nations Human Rights Council report, local NGOs have reported. The report by Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular anti siege committee, welcomed the statement by John Holmes, the UN coordinator of humanitarian affairs, that demanded an end to the siege

Among the UNHRC recommendations approved by Egypt is the ending of the state of emergency in place since 1981.

Press Release: Egypt’s human rights record was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council yesterday( 17 February 2010).