During Lebanon’s Universal Periodic Review on January 19, 2026, MENA Rights Group submitted an alternative report documenting torture, refoulement, and transnational repression. On the same day, MENA Rights Group and partners held a side event in Geneva to discuss these findings. The issues raised were reflected in several recommendations made to Lebanon by UN Member States.
On the first anniversary of his arrest, 17 human rights organisations condemn the arrest and extradition of Egyptian–Turkish poet and dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi, describing it as an unlawful act of transnational repression.
MENA Rights Group and ALQST for Human Rights address an open letter to Mr. Alexandre Zouev, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism and Executive Director of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT), expressing human rights concerns on the UN office's new agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Presidency of State Security (PSS).
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights and MENA Rights Group have submitted the case of Yassine Chabli, who died in police custody in 2022, to the UN Committee Against Torture, citing evidence of torture and major flaws in the official investigation. The organisations denounce the authorities’ failure to classify the violence as torture and warn that the handling of the case undermines confidence in Morocco’s justice system.
MENA Rights Group welcomes the recommendations made by the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to downgrade the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) to “B” status following its special review during the SCA’s 46th session, held from October 20 to 31, 2025.
MENA Rights Group joins 18 other NGOs and international trade union federations in urging Algeria to immediately release human rights defender and trade unionist Ali Mammeri, who was arbitrarily sentenced to 15 years in prison on 29 October 2025 and is now awaiting appeal.
MENA Rights Group joins over 50 NGOs in calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately halt all executions and uphold its commitments to end the death penalty for child defendants and drug offenders following the alarming execution of 300 people in 2025.
MENA Rights Group joins 10 NGOs in calling on the UN Committee against Torture to hold Bahrain accountable for ongoing violations of the Convention against Torture ahead of its review on November 18-19, 2025.
MENA Rights Group joins 10 NGOs in calling on the United States of America to address Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses during the Crown Prince's visit to Washington on November 18.
MENA Rights Group joins 19 other Algerian, regional, and international organisations in calling for the immediate release of poet and activist Mohamed Tadjadit and the dropping of all charges against him.
