Human Rights

ABU DHABI - Five political activists being tried in the United Arab Emirates on charges of insulting the country's leaders…

International human rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged Egypt’s military rulers to immediately release a detained blogger who has been…

Ahmed Agiza is no stranger to the brutality of the Egyptian justice system. The 49-year-old Egyptian Islamist was first detained…

The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) renewed its calls for the release of blogger Mikel Nabil, who has been…

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is preparing to explicitly demand the departure of Syrian President Bashar Assad and hit his…

A Cairo-based rights group on Tuesday condemned Saudi authorities' blocking of Amnesty International's website after it criticized the country's draft…

In a climate where suspicion of foreign motives are exacerbated, a remark by the US Ambassador-Designate to Egypt Anne Patterson…

Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said Thursday that his cabinet will update and reactivate a 60-year-old law to prosecute officials for…

Contemporary discussions about the state of Egypt are largely focused on avenging the past rather than pondering over the future.…

  A prominent human rights activist on Monday declined the post of deputy interior minister for human rights, claiming that…