Human Rights

In letters sent to the UN and the African Commission, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) is asking them…

Handbills, posters, stickers, anything that can hold an idea is being plastered on the graffiti-strewn walls of the Middle East’s…

Sunday’s papers focus on suggestions to accelerate the timeline of the transitional period as the results of the second round…

Former Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy has filed a case against a journalist accusing him of humiliating the police, Al-Ahram newspaper…

Local human rights watchdogs on Sunday accused the Egyptian military of systematically targeting female political activists, and demanded that Egypt’s…

Bahraini police have arrested prominent human rights blogger Zainab al-Khawaja, according to a rights group and video posted online of her…

Rights group Amnesty International is calling for a halt to US arms shipments to Egypt’s security forces “until there is…

Horrific accounts of torture, rape and organ theft are continuing to emerge from Egypt’s Sinai desert, seven rights organizations said…

GENEVA — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Friday for the international community to take…

Germany and Italy have expressed deep concern over the violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Egypt over the…