Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is sponsoring an investment conference in Miami and further whitewashing the country’s egregious human rights record, five human rights groups including MENA Rights Group said today. The PIF’s Future Investment Initiative Institute (FII Institute) Priority Summit is to be held in Miami from February 19 to 21, 2025.
MENA Rights Group leads a coalition of 15 civil society organisations in urging the Arab Interior Ministers' Council to cease its facilitation of arbitrary extraditions of peaceful dissidents and human rights defenders across Arab League countries and to align its legal framework and systems with international human rights law.
MENA Rights Group joins 30 organisations in a joint letter to EU leaders urging them to call on Bahrain to release Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad, two EU-Bahraini nationals who are arbitrarily detained.
Following the announcement made by the Kuwaiti government to amend its Nationality Law and effectively strip thousands of individuals of their citizenship, MENA Rights Group joins 8 other organisations in calling on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately suspend the revocation of nationality of these individuals.
MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of Arab civil society organisations in condemning US President Trump's policy of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians.
After the announcement of a new agreement between Saudi Arabia and INTERPOL to open a Regional Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa in Riyadh, MENA Rights Group and ALQST for Human Rights address an open letter to INTERPOL inviting the organisation to reconsider their decision.
MENA Rights Group joins 40+ human rights organisations in urging UAE authorities to clarify the whereabouts of Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-Turkish poet who was recently extradited from Lebanon to the UAE, where he remains forcibly disappeared. The letter calls on the authorities to release him and guarantee his safe return to Turkey.
Following a request for opinion filed by MENA Rights Group and the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights (ESOHR), the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) found that the detention and death sentence of five Saudi individuals who participated in protests in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia while they were minors, violates international human rights law and qualifies as arbitrary.
Algerian authorities have increasingly used arbitrary travel bans to retaliate against perceived critics, Human Rights Watch and MENA Rights Group said. The authorities should lift the arbitrary bans and stop using them as a tool to repress dissent.
In a joint letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, MENA Rights Group joins partner organisations in urging US authorities to help secure the release of Ahmed Kamel, an Egyptian national detained in Saudi Arabia who faces imminent extradition to Egypt.
MENA Rights Group joins civil society organisations in welcoming the reduction of the prison sentence of Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi prisoner of conscience.
MENA Rights Group sent a letter to Royal Jet expressing concern regarding the company's possible involvement in the unlawful extradition of Turkish-Egyptian dissident Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi.
