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MENA Rights Group (MRG) and Safeguard Defenders welcome the decision of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which ruled that the detention of Uyghur activist Yidiresi Aishan in Morocco, where he was facing extradition to China, was arbitrary under international law.

MENA Rights Group welcomes findings of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention holding the United States of America and the United Arab Emirates jointly responsible for the detention of Afghan refugees in the Emirates Humanitarian City.

In recent years, Algeria’s public sphere has witnessed an alarming rise in hate speech and persistent incitement against migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Migrants face racist rhetoric widely circulated in some media outlets and on social media, which promotes systematic violations and fuels a general climate of marginalization and discrimination. The undersigned organizations denounce this rhetoric, […]

MENA Rights Group, alongside 26 civil society organizations, calls on UN Human Rights Council member and observer states to urge Bahrain to release arbitrarily detained activists and death row inmates ahead of Eid al-Adha.

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 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 30+ organisations in raising concerns over the human rights situation in Bahrain to Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council ahead of its 56th session. In this joint letter, we highlight the continued arbitrary detention of human rights defenders in Bahrain and call on authorities to release them.

MENA Rights Group joins 11 civil society organisations in condemning and urging the Lebanese government to halt its forced deportations of Syrian refugees to areas inside Syria deemed unsafe.

MENA Rights Group joins 25+ civil society organisations in urging Egyptian authorities to immediately stop targeting Sudanese asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants for arbitrary arrest, detention and forced deportations.

On March 15, 2024, Right Livelihood, ALQST for Human Rights and MENA Rights Group delivered a joint oral statement before the Human Rights Council (HRC), during the general debate of its 55th session, highlighting the systematic human rights violations committed by Saudi authorities.

MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of civil society organisations in urging Bulgarian authorities not to deport Abdulrahman al-Khalidi, a Saudi activist currently detained in Bulgaria. The organisations further call on Bulgarian authorities to release him from detention and reconsider his asylum application.

MENA Rights Group expresses deep concern over reported human rights violations against Afghan refugees who have been stuck in the "Emirates Humanitarian City" since August 2021.