Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

Internet café owners were ordered to install surveillance cameras and log website information and browsing data for no less than six months.

Following a recent mission, members of the TMG concluded in their new report that Tunisia needs a truly independent judiciary to reverse its worsening record on human rights and treatment of prisoners of opinion.

Members of the TMG invite the Washington Media Group to take the opportunity of its new relationship with Tunisia to point out to the government that the best way to improve its image abroad is to bring its practices up to international standards of basic human rights.

The activists had gathered to discuss the need for democratic reforms in Egypt.

Nasser Amin was called to the Prosecutor General’s Office to defend statements he made to the press in the debate over the eligibility of women for judicial posts.

The arrest of Mohammed Al-Sunaid is aimed at silencing him, as he often defends labourers’ rights against abuse, says ANHRI.

Abdel Halim Kandil was surprised when airport security officials stopped him, seized his passport and detained him without reason.

Journalist Haj Warraq and editor Fayez Al Sheikh Al Saleek have been accused of “humiliating the state and publishing false news”.