Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

Nineteen human rights organisations have joined forces to condemn the continued enforced disappearance of Syrian human rights lawyer Khalil Ma’touq whose health has been steadily deterioriating over the past eight months he spent in detention.

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), are currently seeking to curb the right to freedom of association through legal restrictions even more severe than those imposed by the Mubarak regime.

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.

Two years after the “Arab Spring” swept the region and led to the ouster of rulers in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen, the state of human rights in these countries remains dire and the transition to democracy faces major challenges.

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).

High Commissioner Navi Pillay urged the Egyptian government to take steps to ensure that the current version of a draft law on civil society organisations is laid open to careful examination by Egyptian and international human rights experts, and, based on their advice, is brought into line with international standards.

UAE authorities have been arbitrarily denying family members, international observers, and the international media access to the mass trial of 94 critics of the government.

UAE authorities have been arbitrarily denying family members, international observers, and the international media access to the mass trial of 94 critics of the government.