Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

The Preventive Security Forces in Palestine arrested, on 21 May 2013 at dawn, five young people from the Popular Palestininian Party in Tulkarem one of whom is Saleem El Salman, a correspondent for the “All People” radio show.

Syria has recently witnessed the murder of a number of journalists, activists, and media professionals working in the war-torn country where battles waged between the regime and the rebels get more violent by the day.

Mustafa El-Hesnawi is known for defending the rights of detainees from the Islamic movement in Morocco. He received a warrant from the National Brigade of Judicial Officers on 16 May and was called in for investigation. Soon after he arrived, he was arrested and officials refused to declare the reasons behind the investigation or the nature of the charges pressed against him.

Over 50 NGOs worldwide signed a joint appeal to the U.N. against the ill-treatment and torture of detained human rights defenders, activists and photojournalists in Bahrain, calling for U.N. and Red Cross visits.

The security forces arrested Ziab El-Amri, a blogger and activist, on 20 May 2013 after the Omani special task force unit besieged his house located in Senaw in the Modabi province north of Oman.

An attack by unknown armed men on 22 May 2013 against an Al Jazeera English (AJE) crew in Tripoli prompts a serious look into the handling of weapons in Lebanon.

Nineteen regional and international human rights organisations call on the Syrian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release and drop all charges against Mazen Darwish and two of his colleagues from the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM).

Six young activists have been sentenced to five years and six months in prison for demonstrating in support of members of the ‘Black Bloc’ during their trial in Cairo.