Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

An attack by Egyptian police forces on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood left 80 dead, according to official reports. Rights groups demanded the dismissal of the interior minister, and called for those responsible to be held accountable.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information denounces the continuing violations and abuses of media professionals and journalists in the Iraqi territories.

IFEX members issued a joint call for amendments to a deeply-flawed draft media law in Somalia before it goes to parliament for approval in August.

Several TV crews for Lebanese satellite channels were subjected to such harassment that they were forced away and banned from filming the scene of the explosion that took place in Bir al-Abed in the southern suburbs of Lebanon on 9 July 2013.

The convictions of 69 defendants in the United Arab Emirates’ mass trial of 94 government critics were based on a fundamentally unfair trial, a coalition of human rights groups said.

The obstinate refusal of the presidency, the Muslim Brotherhood, and their partisans to respond to the demands of the Egyptian people has been posing a grave threat to civil peace, say local rights organisations.
This statement, signed by three IFEX members in the region, was issued shortly before the Egyptian military announced that Morsi had been ousted.

Ahead of the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi’s rule, 20 Egyptian rights organisations call on Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to respect the principles of the democratic process that brought them to power in the first place.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) published a fact-finding report produced by a designated committee on 24 June 2013 surrounding the events of the Zawyet Abu Musallam village in Giza, Egypt, during which four Egyptian Shiites were killed after being accused by Sunni villagers of trying to spread their version of Islam.