Human Rights

Boutros Boutros Ghali, the chairman of the National Council for Human Rights, has sent President Mohamed Morsy the council’s eighth…

The military has been given broad powers to arrest civilians — powers that go beyond its mandate, lawyers from Egypt’s…

Human Rights Watch on Sunday urged Israel to repeal or amend a law that allows migrants to be detained without…

Sixty-six human rights organizations will meet with Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy on Monday to discuss their future role…

In place for 31 years, a state of emergency that gives broad and unchecked powers to Egypt’s police force will…

MANAMA, Bahrain — A prominent rights activist has been released on bail in Bahrain more than three weeks after his…

One of the central demands of the 25 January revolution was for a government that respects civil liberties, unlike the…

The United States said it was partially resuming sales of military supplies to Gulf Arab ally Bahrain after having frozen…

Civilian referrals to military trials seemed to be subsiding in recent months following the early days after the military took…

Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab, a leader of protests against the authorities in the Gulf kingdom, is to be detained…