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Egypt 6th April Aftermath: Interior Ministry floods newspapers with lies

The interior ministry started its statement with an unashamed lie, saying that the police acted violently only after being hit by stones...

Egypt: Brutal Treatment of Peaceful Protesters

The April 6 youth activist group organized this demonstration “to demand an end to 29 years of the state of emergency and amendments of Articles 76, 77 and 88 of the constitution,” to allow for open and inclusive presidential elections...

Settlers Destroy Al-Kurd Property: Two Palestinians Arrested

The Al-Kurd family, assisted by residents across east Jerusalem, recently reclaimed their garden during a commemoration of Land Day...

Palestinians wounded as Egypt blows up tunnel

On Wednesday, Egyptian security forces destroyed a smuggling tunnel underneath the Egypt-Gaza border, wounding at least four Palestinians who were inside the tunnel at the time of detonation, medical sources reported...

Palestinians wounded as Egypt blows up tunnel

On Wednesday, Egyptian security forces destroyed a smuggling tunnel underneath the Egypt-Gaza border, wounding at least four Palestinians who were inside the tunnel at the time of detonation, medical sources reported...

Brotherhood says Egypt police use violence, sexual humiliation

A report has been handed to the Egyptian Prosecution by defense lawyers of 11 Muslim Brotherhood minors who were students in the faculty of Engineering being held in the Menouf police jails. The lawyers gathered extensive information on the behavior toward the innocent students who were illegally detained, and on violence and sexual humiliation and abuse of them on the part of police and their agents...

Aafia Siddiqui forced to walk on Qu’ran while naked

As hundreds of concerned citizens hold a Day of Remembrance in Pakistan to commemorate the seventh anniversary of her disappearance, the Justice for Aafia Coalition reveal for the first time, in the English language, specific harrowing details of the abuse Aafia Siddiqui was forced to endure in the years spent in secret detention...

UK Islamic rights groups welcomes PREVENT decision

This aspect of PREVENT is very clear to Muslim communities, in particular young people, and as such is deeply alienating...

Egypt police arrest Gaza children in Sinai

It has Egyptian rights groups and human rights advocates angered over the apparent use of force against children...

Rachel Corrie trial update

a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct action methods and principles...

Tunisia Tries to Silence Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch plans to go ahead with a March 24 public release of “A Larger Prison: Repression of Former Political Prisoners in Tunisia.”..

CPJ: Tunisia must end harassment of independent journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to end the persecution and imprisonment of a critical journalist and to overturn a four-year jail sentence of another...

Palestinian organizer tortured in Israeli jail

Omar Alaaeddin from the village of alMa’asara was nabbed from the Container Checkpoint on Sunday the 14th...

The Egyptian NGO campaign for the Freedom to Associate

Press release by 41 NGOs..

Headlines from the region

Two French aid workers were freed in Darfur on Sunday after being held hostage for nearly four months, France’s government said...

Activists work to stop wall construction and uprooting of olive trees in Beit Jala

More markings on remaining trees and on the ground announce that soon, the family might lose the rest of its remaining land including the sight of its destroyed playground, and live immediately facing the massive gray concrete Wall...

Egypt condemns Israeli settlement construction in East Jerusalem

Egypt's foreign minister warned that construction of settlements may jeopardize peace-making efforts..

Headlines from the region

Morocco’s anti-drug action The global strategy to combat drugs, adopted by the Moroccan government has “significantly” reduced cannabis production in recent years in Morocco, said Monday the U.S. State Department...

Israeli Court to hear testimonies in unlawful killing of activist Rachel Corrie

The Haifa District Court will begin hearing eyewitness testimonies in a civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza...

Israel: Border police critically injures 14-year-old in Nabi Saleh demonstration

A 14-year-old boy was critically injured during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh against creeping land grab by the adjacent Jewish-only settlement of Halamish...