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Member Releases
- Lebanon: leaders must prevent human rights abuses
- PCHR Condemns Detention of 3 Journalists and a Columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence in the West Bank
- Egypt: Investigate Beating of ‘Facebook’ Activist
- The investigating officer’s findings do not clear Israel of responsibility for the deaths of the Abu Me'tiq family
- Morocco: al-Jazeera forced to shutdown Maghrebi news programme from Rabat
- Lebanon: Armed Groups Attack Free Expression
- IOF Murders and Collective Punishment in Gaza Continue; Al Mezan Calls for Urgent Intentional Intervention
- Tunisia: Reyedef population leaves the town to policemen
- Adalah Criticizes New Bill Absolving Police from Audio and Video Documentation of Investigations of Detainees Suspected of Committing Security Offenses
- Israel is Preventing Fuel Supply to Gaza Strip, Violating Supreme Court Decision
- Morocco / Western Sahara: Investigate migrants’ deaths
- CRLDHT News (In French)
- Israel: Independent Probe Needed in Gaza Killings
- Armed Clashes between El-Qassam Battalions and National Resistance Battaltions Kill 1 Civilian in Rafah
- Amid Continued IOF Escalation, the Number of Victims Rises in Gaza
- Israeli Supreme Court hears citizenship law case
- Brief memorandum on the observations of human rights organizations Regarding the European Commission report On the implementation of the EU-Egypt Action Plan
- Lebanon: Protect Domestic Workers From Abuse, Exploitation
- Turkey: Article 301 Reforms Pallid - It Should Be Abolished
- Egypt: World Press Freedom Day Irony– Egyptian editors appeal prison sentence
- Syria: Sentencing of Mr. Ahmed Al Haji Al Khalaf
- Death Penalty: the sentencing to death of Emad Mahmoud Sa’ed Sa’ed and Tha’er Mahmoud Husni Ermeliat
- Tunisia/France: "business as usual"
- B'Tselem demands a criminal investigation into the killing of five members of the Abu Me'tiq family in Gaza
- Turkey: Respect the rights and safety of demonstrators
- Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups today issued an urgent call to cease restrictions on Gaza's fuel supply and stop the unprecedented harm to Gaza's humanitarian needs.
- Mother and Four Children Killed by Israel Bombardment of their Home in Beit Hanoun
- Raji Sourani Reelected to the Executive Board of the Arab Organization for Human Rights
- Joint Cooperation Agreement Between the Amman Center For Human Rights Studies [ACHRS] and Justice for Prisoners (Iraq)
- Youssef Chaabane, Interrogated Under Torture by the Syrians, Remains in Arbitrary Detention in Lebanon
- France: European Court Orders Suspension of Deportation
- Harassment against Taoufik Ben Brik and Radhia Nasraoui
- Greece says “Hammarberg confirmed progress in Roma rights”!
- Tunisia: 23 young people still missing
- Israel: Investigate Death of Gaza Civilians
- Peaceful Assembly Is an Unconditioned Legal Right; Al Mezan Condemns Violent Dispersing of a March in Rafah
- PCHR is Concerned over the Ban of its Lawyers from Visiting Prisons in the Gaza Strip
- Violent repression of a trade union demonstration
- Algeria: No news of the whereabouts of Rabah Kadri
- Conclusion of a training session on the monitoring of elections held for local monitors in Kuwait
- Human Rights Organizations to Israeli Parliament: Bill Banning Family Visits to Palestinian Political Prisoners Amounts to Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment
- Article 301 should be abolished
- B’Tselem: firing of Flechette shell that killed Reuters cameraman violates laws of war
- US/Italy: Italian Court Challenges CIA Rendition Program
- Egypt: Sentences against Muslim Brothers a perversion of justice
- Tunisia: Against violence and intimidation (In French)
- Tunisia: Foued Khenaissi and Boujomâa Chraïti are free
- Human Rights organizations file a petition to the High Court of Justice against the GSS, the Police and the Attorney General demanding the Court prohibit the use of family members to pressure interrogees
- Egypt: Arrests of Kefaya movement leaders, investigation needed into police killings
- Gaza Strip is on the Verge of Humanitarian Catastrophe
- Election of the management and choice of Amman as its headquarters
- Contempt of Religions should not be used as a pretext to expropriate freedom of opinion and expression
- The Findings of the Palestinian Legislative Council Committee Investigating the Death of Majd abdel Aziz Bargouthi Must be Implemented
- Letter regarding with ill-treament to 15 year old boy in Turkey
- Algeria: Amine Sidhoum's case
- Greece’s ongoing violations of Roma housing rights
- Report on the violation of asylum seekers’ human rights by Greece
- Harassement against a human rights defender in Tunisia (In French)
- US/Jordan: Stop Renditions to Torture
- Open letter to Mr Bouteflika
- Tunisia: Arrests in Gafsa (In French)
- Arrests and Intimidation of Syrian Human Rights Activists
- Egypt: Municipal elections on Tuesday 8 April, concerns mount
- Palestinian Authority: Punish Imam’s Death in Custody
- Judges and jurists demand curbs on the enforcement of the capital punishment (Death Penalty)
- High Military Court Sentences a Man to Death
- Ramallah Government Insists on the Policy of Salary Suspension; Al Mezan Views the Policy as a Violation of Human Rights
- Demolition of houses near the Separation Barrier, Far'un Village, Tulkarm District
- Egyptian State-Run Satellite Nilesat Blocks Transmission of Alhewar Satellite
- Gafsa's population under repression (In French)
- France: Torch Relay Should Not Mask Olympic Rights Abuses
- Egypt: 117 NGOs Slam HIV-Based Arrests and Trials - Doctors Helping Police Denounced for Breaching Medical Ethics, Human Rights
- Final Statement and Recommendations issued by the Second Conference on Academic Freedom in Arab Universities
- Egypt: Newspaper editor’s prosecution part of a “pattern of harassment” of Egyptian media
- Israel: End Systematic Bias Against Bedouin
- Egypt: Jailing 800 Activists Casts Doubt on Elections
- IOF Label Detainees of the Gaza Strip as “Illegal Fighters"; Al Mezan Calls on the International Community to Protect Palestinian Detainees
- PCHR Calls for Keeping Universities and Educational Institutions Out of the Ongoing Power Struggle
- Turkey: Serious concerns regarding Ragip Zarakolu's trial (In French)
- Tunisia in front of the Human Rights Council: the violations go on (In French)
- Tunisia in front of the Human Rights Council: the violations go on (In French)
- Libya: The UN and violations of Human rights
- UN Human Rights Council Undermines Freedom of Expression
- Letter to the Euromed Platform members
- Algeria: Amine Sidhoum's case
- A new historic judgment: The Egyptian Judiciary sides the CTUWS' rights
- Libya: Death Under Torture
- Arab League: Use Summit to Press Syria on Detained Activists
- B’Tselem: Grave suspicion of extra-judicial execution in Bethlehem killings
- Italy goes on harassing Mr. Nassim SAADI,
- Greece: European Court of Human Rights finds violations of Turks’ freedom of association
- Syria: Investigate Killing of Kurds
- Al Mezan Calls on the Arab League's Summit to Protect Palestinian Civilians in the OPT;
- Adalah to Employment Office: Conditioning Acceptance of Arab Women to Work on Removing the Islamic Veil is Discriminatory and Illegal
- UNHCR-GSO Agreement fails to protect refugees in Lebanon
- Human Rights Council: Leave Freedom of Expression Mandate Alone
- Turkey: Judicial harassment against Mr. Ridvan Kizgin
- leave Nassera Mehalli's family live in peace (In French)
- NGOs Demand Cancellation of Nomination of Yoel Lavi – Known for Making Racist Statements against Arab Citizens – as Director of Israel Land Administration
- PCHR Is Deeply Concerned Over Storming the Headquarters of Ramattan Press Agency by the PSS in Ramallah
- B'Tselem to Mazuz: Prevent demolition of home belonging to family of terror attack perpetrator
- New evidence of CIA secret detention - Europe has a case to answer
- The Arab Coalition against the Death Penalty (ACADP) expresses deep concern on the coming into force of the Arab Charter on Human Rights containing provisions allowing death penalty for children.
- Iraq: Five years of carnage and despair
- Police Officers Urinated on Palestinian Detainee Suspected of Throwing Explosives
- Re: 2008 Jewish National Fund Negev Dinner and Award
- Humanitarian Impacts of the Siege Exacerbate; Palestinian Fisherman Lose Their Livelihoods in Gaza
- The Amman Center for Human Rights Studies (ACHRS)
- Egypt: New Indictments in HIV Crackdown
- 34 International and Arabian Human Rights Organizations declare: The document of organizing space transmission is invalid through its form and content
- Greece: “Eleftheros Kosmos” convicted for anti-Semitism – Double GHM vindication
- NGO Coalition calls for EU framework strategy
- Palestinian homes demolished without warning
- The International Commission of Jurists Concludes a Second High Level Mission to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Adalah to Labor Minister: Aged-Based Pension Insurance Discriminates Against Arab Citizens, Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Disabled
- Members of the European Parliament support FIDH’s appeal for stronger EU action on women’s rights
- Appeal to the Heads of State of the African Union in view of the Cairo Summit
- For the withdrawal of reservations and the ratification of the Optional Protocol to CEDAW by Arab states
- On International Women’s Day, the Suffering of Palestinian Women Continues
- ADFM statement
- UK: ARTICLE 19 commends vote to repeal blasphemy
- Woman’s struggle for liberty is struggle of mankind!
- Human Rights Organizations Petition the Supreme Court to Nullify Law that Blatantly Violates Detainees' Rights
- Malik Medjnoun, 34 , arbitrarily detained for over 8 years
- Seven Key Problems Remain in Draft European Convention on Access to Official Documents
- Tunisia: Omar Mestiri and Sihem Bensedrine arrested (In French)
- Victims of IOF Attacks on Gaza rising: 77 Killed; including 19 Children
- European Court reaffirms ban on torture
- Three years for profiling a Moroccan prince on Facebook
- B'Tselem condemns rocket fire at Israel
- Gaza Strip/Israel: Civilians Bear Brunt of Attacks
- 149 people killed since the start of the year
- Syria: Arrest of Mr. Jean Rassoul
- Give a chance to peace !
- Repeal of the sentence issued against Messrs. Kamal Abbas and Mohamed Helmy
- PCATI Files Petition Demanding Criminal Investigation of Highly Decorated Boarder Patrol Officer for Assassinating Palestinian Civilian in 2001
- Request for Review of Palestinian Youssef Chaabane’s Trial Turned Down
- Al Mezan Welcomes the Visit of EU High Representative Javier Solana to the OPT
- Pressures against Human Rights Defenders Aim to Leave Truths in the Dark!
- Contrary to Israel's Chief of Staff, at least half of those killed in Gaza did not take part in the fighting
- Israeli High Court of Justice strips civilians in the Gaza Strip of status as protected persons under occupation and sanctions the siege
- As There Are Indications of Medical Negligence, PCHR Callas for Investigation into the Death of a Palestinian Prisoner in an Israeli Jail
- Wilful killing not collateral damage: Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip must be prosecuted
- Academic Freedom? Not for Arabs in Israel
- Al Haq's documentary "in the spider's web" is available on YouTube
- Tunisia: Court’s decision to uphold death sentence a failure to redress injustice
- Call for independent UK investigation into US renditions
- Migrant shot dead trying to cross Egypt/Israel border
- Morocco: Protect Rights to Privacy and Fair Trial
- PCHR Calls for Independent Investigation into Death of Detainee Subjected to Torture and Medical Negligence
- Al Mezan Condemns Providing the Gaza Strip with Expired Medical Supplies
- Arab League: Reject Proposal to Restrict Satellite Broadcasts
- The Jordanian News Agency [Petra] and Amman Center for Human Rights Studies [ACHRS] hold a Workshop on Strengthening human rights
- IOF Escalates its Aggression and Collective Punishment against Civilians; Killing 5 in the Gaza Strip
- Supreme Court Petition Demands Better Prisoner Transport Conditions
- The Jordanian News Agency [Petra] and Amman Center for Human Rights Studies [ACHRS] hold a Workshop on Strengthening human rights
- Tunisia: Death penalty confirmed (In French)
- Slovenian Presidency breaching EU’s fundamental values
- Egypt: Hundreds of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees from Sudan and other sub-Saharan African countries
- Appeal granted in the case of UK arms-related licenses agreements to Israel
- Separation Barrier route isolates the village of Nu’man
- EU « Returns » Directive. 10 recommendations for a protective harmonization in line with Human Rights
- Accusations against human rights activists
- Egypt: Spreading Crackdown on HIV Endangers Public Health
- Israel’s Use of Cluster Bombs Shows Need for Global Ban
- PCHR & Al-Mezan Call for Investigating the Explosion in El-Bureij Refugee Camp
- Salaries of Civil Servants Suspensions Continue; Al Mezan Demands the PNA Government in Ramallah to Respect Applicable Palestinian Law
- Tunisia: Fatma Ksila et Samia Abbou assaulted
- Tunisia: The lifes of Abderrahmane TLILI and his mother are in danger
- Adoption of the Declaration of the Committee of Ministers for enhanced protection of human rights defenders
- Murder of Yahya Menekşe is one of the Crimes against Humanity!
- Lawyer Orhan Kemal Cengiz is threatened!
- Soliman's group case: Mobilisation against death penalty
- The world coalition agianst death penalty denounces the provision of arab charter on human rights regarding the application of death penalty for children
- Israel has cut off the northern West Bank
- British police feared a “real threat of an armed confrontation” with armed Israelis at Heathrow Airport
- Slovakia: Analysis of Draft Press Act
- FIDH mission in Turkey - Summary report « Turkey must end the impunity of political violence »
- Arab Charter for Satellite TV: A major setback to freedom of the press in the region
- C.D.F Secretary Council Meeting
- Libya: Concerns about Fathi el-Jahmi's health
- In Cooperation with Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, Al Mezan Begins Activities for Rehabilitation Specialists and Disabled Persons
- High Court rejects petition against reduction of fuel and electricity supply to Gaza
- IOF Bomb School in Beit Hanoun, Killing one Teacher and Injuring 3 Students: IOF escalation kills a total of 7 Palestinians in 4 Hours
- Greece: Norway suspends asylum seekers referrals to Greece because of rights violations. Iraqi asylum seeker alleges ill-treatment and deception.
- A Tunisian comedian in prison for imitating Ben Ali
- Greece: Alleged violations at sea must be investigated
- Egypt: “Re-Conversion” Decision Is a Welcome Step
- Romania: Reject Discriminatory Definition of Family
- Greece: Rights groups denounce Greek prosecutor’s racist statement
- Human Rights Groups: "Israel is Violating the Rights of Civilians in Gaza and Depriving them of Basic Needs – in Violation of International Law."
- Al Mezan Center Organizes a Meeting to Protect Gaza's Journalists
- Egypt blocks Gazans' access to the outside world
- Israeli civilian killed by Palestinians in Dimona, in southern Israel
- Ahmad Abu Hantash dies from head wound from “rubber” bullets in Nablus
- Egypt: Stop Criminalizing HIV
- Syria: Opposition Activists Tell of Beatings in Interrogation
- Spain: Five police officers under criminal investigation for ill-treatment reinstated in their duties.
- One year after the signing ceremony of the convention on enforced disappearances the number has reached 72 signatures and 2 ratifications
- Starting Tomorrow: Escalation in Collective Punishment of Gaza – With Supreme Court Approval
- A major step forward in ensuring the protection of the rights of trafficked persons
- ACHRS July/December 2007
- Morocco: Fear of unfair imprisonment/ Prisoners of conscience
- End the Siege of the Gaza Strip
- Recommendations after the seminar on "Maghreb Women towards Equality" (In French)
- Review the trial of Saber Ragoubi and Imed Ben Ameur
- To EU-Egypt sub-committee for human rights, democracy, international and regional affairs
- Egypt: Government Shuts Down Protest Following Bush Visit
- Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: Israel must allow basic necessities into Gaza
- Meeting of the Board of the Euromed Non-Governmental Platform in Casablanca
- Soldiers assault and arrest B'Tselem worker in Hebron
- Turkey: Reveal the full circumstances surrounding Hrant Dink's murder
- Libya: Mass expulsion of irregular migrants would be a violation of human rights
- UN Declares as “Arbitrary” the Detention of Four Officers and Four Civilians in Hariri Case
- France/Saudi Arabia: Sarkozy Should Raise Human Rights Issues in Saudi Arabia
- Al Mezan Condemns Assaults on Peaceful Assembly in Ramallah; Calls for an End to Attacks on Journalists
- Following Adalah’s Petition, State Rescinds Decision to Appropriate Around 900 Dunams of Land Belonging to Arab Citizens of Israel in Daliyat al-Carmel
- IOF Escalate Attacks against the Gaza Strip: 17 Palestinians Killed and at Least 30 Others Wounded in Gaza City in Less Than 4 Hours
- Jordan: Withdrawal by the Government of the Bill of Law on NGOs
- The Observatory expresses its deepest concern regarding the trial held against Mr. Anwar Al-Bunni
- No to administrative detention of foreigners (In French)
- Head of ISA defines a terrorist as any Palestinian killed by Israel
- New website for the "Parliamentary Observer"
- Crackdown on Syrian activists continue
- Libya: Rights at Risk
- Morocco: Allow Free Expression in Western Sahara
- IOF Shells a House in Khan Younis; Eight Palestinians Killed and 17 Wounded in the Gaza Strip
- The Arab Coalition against the Death Penalty welcomes the UN General Assembly resolution calling for the establishment of a moratorium on the death penalty and commends Algeria’s stance.
- Israel's Fuel Cuts Cause 30% Reduction in Gaza Power Plant Production
- Jordan: Serious Threat on Freedom of Association
- Tunisia: Soliman's case (In French)
- Greek Helsinki Monitor Spokesperson attacked after deposition in neo-Nazis’ trial
- Egypt: New Investigation Needed Into Assault on Sudanese Protestors
- Gaza Human Rights Organizations Condemn Violence between Fatah Supporters and Palestinian Police in the Gaza Strip
- Support letter to tunisian teachers (In French)
- 131 Palestinians who did not participate in the hostilities killed by Israel's security forces in 2007
- Syria must stop repression against human rights defenders
- Assessment and implementation of the UE-Morocco Action Plan in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Involvement of the Moroccan civil society
- ACHRS Publicizes Regional Report on Death Penalty
- Danish Institute for Human Rights : Discrimination is still a major problem in the EU
- The office of lawyer Ayachi Hammami damaged by arson
- Turkey: Judiciary harassment against Osman Baydemir