Saudi Arabian Shi'a cleric Sheikh Tawfiq Jaber Ibrahim al-'Amr was arrested on 27 February following a sermon he gave calling for reforms in Saudi Arabia. He has ...
Sultan al-Khalaifi, who is a Qatari blogger and the founder of a human rights organization, was arrested on 2 March and is being detained incommunicado. He is ...
On 14 January 2011, following a month of spiralling anti-government protests across Tunisia, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali secretly fled the country, ending ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI index: MDE 12/023/2011. 28 February 2011. Egypt: Constitution proposals faltering first step to reform. ...
Navid Khanjani, a member of two Iranian human rights organizations, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment on 31 January 2011. He has appealed, but an appeal hearing ...
Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, along with their wives Zahra Rahnavard and Fatemeh Karroubi, have been subjected to an enforced ...
Health professionals in Manama have reported that they were attacked by security forces on 17 February, hours after state security personnel entered the area to ...