Egyptian authorities have carried out a wave of arrests targeting critics ahead of a pivotal American decision on military aid. This is “seen as a key indicator of how the Biden administration will balance security [ More … ]
One month into a much-touted program to heal the country’s deep political rifts, Egyptian authorities have arrested dozens of dissidents, opposition supporters, and football fans in a continued course of repression. Cairo inaugurated its long-delayed [ More … ]
Egypt launched a national political dialogue last Wednesday that authorities said was meant to generate debate around the country’s future, though the chair of the event said several areas of discussion would be off limits. [ More … ]
The Tunisian authorities have arrested Ennahda President Rached Ghannouchi and raided the party’s headquarters, in escalation of crackdown on political opponents. In a sharp escalation of the crackdown on President Kais Saied’s political opponents, authorities [ More … ]
Egypt is experiencing a worsening human rights crisis, prompting NGOs to call on the UN to take urgent procedures to address the crisis. The UN HRC must adopt a resolution on the human rights crisis [ More … ]
Internet personalities in Egypt are the target of a government campaign based on trumped up charges that rights activists say violate free speech. Egyptians who post viral content, even if it appears apolitical, are increasingly [ More … ]
Rights groups say freedoms ‘face an imminent peril’ after police used water cannons and tear gas at a demonstration against President Kais Saied last week Tunisian human rights groups have warned that freedoms in the [ More … ]
Colonel Ali Mohamed al-Farran, a senior Egyptian official liaising with Tunisia’s Presidential Security, plans ‘to replicate the Egyptian experience’, reported Middle East Eye A senior Egyptian intelligence officer, who is liaising with Tunisia’s Presidential Security, [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt should immediately end a crackdown on freedom of association, independent groups, and peaceful dissent, 63 organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, said today. Sixty-three organizations, including Human Rights Watch [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has detained two senior members of the royal family – Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and Mohammed bin Nayef, the king’s nephew – according to reports citing sources with knowledge of [ More … ]
At least 28 people have reportedly been shot dead by security forces across Iraq as protesters torched the Iranian embassy in the southern city of Najaf. A curfew was imposed in the city following the [ More … ]
A London-based Saudi rights group says the Saudi citizens were taken from their homes in Riyadh and Jeddah Saudi Arabia has detained at least eight people, including intellectuals, writers and entrepreneurs, the London-based Saudi rights [ More … ]
Egypt has detained two prominent activists who played key roles in the 2011 revolution, activists and a rights group said, the latest in a wave of arrests in recent weeks. Blogger and journalist Esraa Abdel [ More … ]
In late September, protests erupted throughout Egypt in response to the widespread and systemic corruption of the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Predictably, the Egyptian security forces responded with a heavy hand, arresting thousands of [ More … ]
A prominent Egyptian activist who was released on probation in March was arrested again on Sunday, his family and a security source said, part of what government critics say is the largest wave of arrests [ More … ]
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