Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

As political turmoil and armed violence has escalated since 2013 and peaceful politics has receded sharply since the spring of 2014, the violence has impacted Libyan women as well.

Human Rights First and CIHRS have released a report detailing the severe crackdown on peaceful dissent and nongovernmental organizations in Sisi’s Egypt.

There are over 6000 Palestinian prisoners currently in Israeli jails, and since 1948, arbitrary Israeli imprisonment has deprived one million Palestinians of their freedom.

Fourteen international and regional rights organisations accuse the Egyptian government of trampling over even the minimum requirements for free and fair elections for the planned March 2018 vote.

In a month that included a malware surveillance campaign in Lebanon, Telegram being blocked in Iran and crackdowns in Tunisia, the release of Hisham Al-Omeisy was a welcome bit of good news.

A new report by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Information warns that despite relative improvement in the state of freedom of association in Morocco, practices formerly beleaguering local and international rights organizations in the kingdom may reemerge.

FIDH and the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, with the support of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, have filed a criminal complaint relating to the potential role – via the sale of surveillance technology – of the French company Amesys (renamed Nexa Technologies) in widespread oppression under the Al-Sissi regime.

Our Middle East and North Africa round-up spotlights Bahrain’s first military trial of civilians since 2011, a growing crackdown on members of Egypt’s LGBTQI+ community, and a new player restricting Iranians’ internet access.