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On 14 May 2025, the Jordanian Media Commission issued an order for ISPs to block at least 12 news websites, most of which are independent media outlets. The decision lacked an official detailed announcement, including the legal basis for the blocking. Instead, authorities provided vague justifications through media channels, invoking broad and imprecise terms such as […]

MENA Rights Group strongly condemns the Jordanian authorities' ongoing crackdown on pro-Palestine activism and has appealed to several UN Special Rapporteurs, urging them to call for its immediate halt.

During an event at the UN Headquarters in New York, civil society organisations and the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism raised their concerns regarding the troubling pattern of transnational repression in the MENA region.

MENA Rights Group welcomes the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture’s recommendations for Jordan to respect its obligations under the Convention against Torture. Jordanian authorities must work toward abolishing the practice of torture, holding perpetrators accountable, ensuring legal safeguards are afforded to all detainees, and prohibiting unlawful extraditions.   On November 6 and 7, 2024, […]

On July 5, 2024, the UN Human Rights Council met to adopt the outcome report for Jordan’s Universal Periodic Review. MENA Rights Group, Front Line Defenders and the Regional Coalition for Women Human Rights Defenders in MENA delivered a joint oral statement condemning the Jordanian government's repression of civic space in the context of the Gaza war.

MENA Rights Group leads a coalition of human rights organisations in calling on UAE authorities to immediately release arbitrarily detained Jordanian activist Ahmed al-Atoum after his mother's sudden passing. While al-Atoum is serving a 10-year sentence for Facebook posts criticising Jordanian authorities, he did not get a chance to say goodbye to his mother, nor to grieve her death with his family.