Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

Ten Egyptian rights organisations launch campaign called Voices Behind Bars to defend hundreds of young people currently detained for exercising their right of freedom of opinion and expression.

Police have arrested youth from cafes in downtown Cairo, at metro stations, at random police checkpoints and from their homes.

Since his detention, many human rights groups have campaigned for his release. On 21 April 2015, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared his detention a violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and called for his release, yet the Syrian authorities refuse to free him.

Over 40 human rights groups and more than 75 international cartoonists are calling for leniency for Atena Farghadani, an Iranian cartoonist currently wrongfully jailed.

Head of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information Gamal Eid’s travel ban is the latest in a string of arbitrary travel bans targeting activists and human rights advocates in Egypt.

As one of the most respected Arab journalists in the region, Ali Anouzla’s publications are renowned for their unequivocally pro-democracy editorial line that translates into a critical yet fair treatment of the real power holders in Morocco.

Military prosecutors ordered the detention of investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat on the morning of 9 November for four days pending interrogation on charges related solely to his writings as a journalist. The prosecutors refuse to tell lawyers where Bahgat is being detained.

Several Iraqi provinces have witnessed the violent deaths of political activists and tribal leaders supportive of Iraq’s nation-wide anti-corruption protests. Undaunted by the killings and the government’s apparent inability or unwillingness to respond to them, protesters have vowed to keep demonstrating until their demands are met.