Armed Saleh supporters also surrounded the headquarters of the newspaper Al-Jomhuryah in the city of Taiz on 4 February, while security forces watched without intervening

Saleh blamed bloodshed in Taizz and other cities on “terrorists.” In a written response to Human Rights Watch’s findings

Iraqi law authorizes the death penalty for close to 50 crimes, including terrorism, kidnapping, and murder, but also including such offenses as damage to public property.

In this blog entry, he tackled a number of issues in a critical manner, as in his disappointment in the situation in his country and his lack of confidence

ANHRI denounces the ongoing daily massacres committed by the forces of the dictator Bashar al-Assad against protesters and activists in Syria

As the final option, the Bedouin would be willing to negotiate the possibility of relocating again, if the Civil Administration treated them as equal negotiating partners.

A journalist was also detained for a short time today, according to news reports. Mohamed Rabee, a correspondent for the online independent daily Al-Badil, was forcibly detained in downtown Cairo by men in plainclothes

Security forces were unable to control the number of demonstrators that invaded the premises

Egyptian NGOs have rejected the law. The draft would give the authorities more powers, and to decide whether an organization's activities are acceptable on the basis of threatening “national unity,

Madani, a sociologist as well as a journalist who has written dozens of articles in the independent media

Khader Adnan, 33, was arrested on 17 December 2011 at his home in the village of Arrabe near Jenin in the occupied West Bank

Authorities have also arrested at least 27 people in Shush, 115 kilometers northwest of Ahvaz, in recent weeks

Under the 1975 Tunisian Press Code, a journalist can be imprisoned for up to six months for defaming an individual

Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime minister and owner of the closed newspaper Kalameh Sabaz, his wife

Egyptian officials claim this is an independent judicial investigation but the judges were hand-picked by the same minister who commissioned the report on NGOs,” said Stork.

In addition, Egyptian policies have the effect of nearly trapping unregistered Palestinians in Gaza. At its border with Gaza, Egypt denies entry and exit to unregistered Palestinians

In the same time the Ministry of Interior has annulled in its statement posted on its page on the social networking website “Face Book” that Anis was arrested for a song, but for using and dealing in drugs, along with other 10 accused persons, including two girls

Mansoor had been released earlier along with other 4 activists on a presidential amnesty last November on the occasion of Emirates’ National Day

As of December, 42 journalists and bloggers were in prison in Iran, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists

Children also told Human Rights Watch that their schools closed in 2011 due to violence, or that it was no longer safe for them to go to school

Local media opposed to the current Iranian regime reported that security forces have detained dozens who participated in a night protest against the regime in Ahwaz.

Khardmand is a journalist with the monthly Gozaresh Sanat Chap. According to her husband, Masoud Lavassani

Front Line Defenders is deeply concerned about the Syrian authorities' campaign of judicial harassment, intimidation, and death threats against human rights defender Abdulla Al Khalil and his family

In addition, as a state party to the Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Yemen has recognized that if genocide

All this comes in the context of the statements made by the MP Alsadeq Shoro, activist in the religion trend, and one of the Institutional Council’s members, his statements carried incitement to hate and violence

On 20 March 2011, Ms. Mubarak was arrested at Alrefa’ region, south west of the Bahraini capital AL Manama

Front Line Defenders calls on the Sudanese authorities to immediately release Bushra Gamar Hussein Rahma and guarantee that he is able to carry out his legitimate human rights work without fear of reprisal.

Amnesty International is urging the authorities to release all those detained in recent weeks unless they are promptly charged with a recognizably criminal offence and tried in accordance with international fair trial standards.

Amnesty International only became aware of Fadhila Mubarak's full story after other women inmates who were released on bail talked about her case.

In December, state run TV channel Al-Iraqiya broadcast "confessions" by men said to be al-Hashemi’s bodyguards saying that they had killed police officers and officials from ministries in exchange for payoffs from al-Hashemi.

The BICI found a pattern of serious human rights abuses such as the use of excessive force against peaceful protesters, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture and ill-treatment of detainees, and denial of fair trial guarantees.

Security men raided the newspaper office at midnight and confiscated all the copies of its printed issue determined to cause the publisher the maximum loss possible, that very issue is the first after a ban lasted for 4 months

Two other activists, Ali Nejati and Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, who are serving one and five-year prison terms, respectively, on national security charges related to their independent trade union activities

When Sanad’s brother, Mark, and members of his support committee went to Tora prison on the morning of 22 January to await his release

Lawyers and families were denied details of the charges against the men for months and were denied access to many of the court proceedings.