Human Rights

Radhia Nasraoui, head of the Tunisian Association Against Torture, denounced on Monday the death of a man who died in…

WASHINGTON — Religious freedom in Egypt appears to be "quite tenuous" and its government has failed to aggressively prosecute perpetrators of…

Human Rights Watch urged President Mohamed Morsy to immediately end military trials of civilians in a report Sunday.

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…