MENA Rights Group joins 30+ civil society organisations in addressing an open letter to the United Kingdom and the European Union to call for the release of Egyptian poet Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi.
MENA Rights Group, alongside 17 international and national human rights organizations and the families of the victims of the August 2020 port blast, is calling on the Prime Minister and the Justice Minister to take all necessary steps to ensure that the investigation into the blast proceeds without any interference or obstruction.
During its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on January 27, 2025, Iraq received 263 recommendations from 93 States on various issues including its human rights framework, the right to freedom of expression, and the death penalty.
MENA Rights Group and 19 organisations call on Bulgarian authorities to immediately grant asylum to Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi.
MENA Rights Group joins 23 organisations to call on Bahraini authorities to immediately release human rights defender Ali al-Hajee, recently arrested for his social media activity.
MENA Rights Group joins partner organisations in addressing a letter to the King of Bahrain to demand that equal rights be granted to women in transmitting their citizenship to children.
MENA Rights Group joins regional and international civil society in urging UN Member States to address the ongoing repression of civic space in Algeria during the upcoming 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council.
MENA Rights Group joins 30+ organisations in condemning the Egyptian authorities' decision to block the independent media platform Zawia 3, amidst a broader pattern of restrictions on press freedom and digital rights in Egypt.
MENA Rights Group joins 13 other NGOs in calling on Saudi authorities to refrain from carrying out the death sentence of dozens of prisoners, most Egyptian nationals, held in Tabuk prison.
MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of 25 UK, Egyptian and international organisations in urging British Foreign Secretary David Lammy to use the UN Human Rights Council to draw attention to the pronounced human rights crisis in Egypt. Doing so would support arbitrarily imprisoned British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the groups said.
MENA Rights Group and Safeguard Defenders welcome the recent release of Uyghur activist Yidiresi Aishan, who faced extradition from Morocco to China following his arrest in 2021.
