Press Releases

Yemen: Scores of arbitrarily detained prisoners go on hunger strike inside Mukalla Political Security Prison

YEM - News | 16 March 2010
Nearly 50 detainees inside Mukalla Political Security prison in Hadramawt province, southern Yemen, have entered a hunger strike in protest of their continued imprisonment by the Yemeni security authorities who have never charged them or taken them to court.

Egypt : 42 electoral candidates and 145 protestors arrested in one day

EGY - News | 12 March 2010
42 Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested from their homes earlier this morning. After Friday prayers today, 53 protestors were arrested outside Abu Magda Mosque in Al-Ismaliya and 70 more in Maidan Al-Sharqiya, of which eight are women, following demonstrations against the blockading Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by Israeli forces earlier today.

Yemen: Al-Saadi brothers arrested by Political Security forces during house raid

YEM - News | 12 March 2010
The two brothers Osama, 14 and Mohammed Al-Saadi, 17, were arrested on 13 October 2007 and incommunicado for two months and then later detained without being subject to any legal proceedings for 18 months. They were eventually tried in January 2009 and Osama, whose sentence ended in October 2009, remains in custody.

Saudi Arabia: Human rights defender, Thamer Al-Khodr, now prisoner of conscience

KSA - News | 12 March 2010
Thamer Al-Khodr, a Saudi human rights activist was arrested on 3 March 2010, by agents from the Al-Qassim intelligence services. He is currently being held incommunicado.