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Fouad Abdelmoumni was convicted for a post accusing Morocco of spying on France [Getty]
Morocco
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Rights advocates urge Morocco to annul activist's prison term

Nearly 300 rights advocates from North Africa and France have signed a petition urging Morocco to annul the prison sentence of activist Fouad Abdelmoumni.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 March, 2025
Yarahi was flogged at a security facility in Tehran
Iran
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Iranian singer who urged women to go without hijab is flogged

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 March, 2025
Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi (C), son of the Islamic scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi
MENA
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Renowned UK lawyer joins case to free poet Qaradawi

The New Arab Staff
06 March, 2025
Trial of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah in Cairo
Egypt
MENA
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Nobel laureates, activists call for release of Alaa Abdel-Fattah

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 March, 2025
: Laila Soueif (L), mother of Aala Abdel Fattah, a writer and dual citizen of Britain and Egypt and Sanaa Seif (R), sister of Egyptian-British jailed activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah on January 7, 2025 in Cairo, Egypt
Egypt
MENA
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Rights experts demand Egypt urgently release Alaa Abdel-Fattah

The New Arab Staff
27 February, 2025
Photo of protest in London against the death penalty in Iran
Iran
MENA
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Iran executed over 900 people in 2024, including dozens of women

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 January, 2025
Laila Soueif on hunger strike in protest at Egypt's imprisonment of her son, Alaa Abdel Fattah
Alaa Abdel Fattah
MENA
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Mother of jailed UK-Egyptian activist reaches 100th day of hunger strike

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 January, 2025
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Saudi Arabia
MENA
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Saudi Arabia presses man to give up US citizenship over tweets

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 January, 2025
Relatives of Sednaya prisoners stage protest in Damascus
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Long silenced by fear, Syrians now speak about rampant torture under Assad

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 January, 2025
Photo of Palestinian woman talking to Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank
Israel-Palestine
MENA
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Israeli violence in West Bank reaches record levels in 2024

The New Arab Staff
01 January, 2025
Photo of a mural of Hind Rajab
Israel
MENA
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NGO calls on Thailand to arrest Israeli for Gaza war crimes

The New Arab Staff
01 January, 2025
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Israel
MENA
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UN rights expert slams Israeli plan for volunteer prison guards

The New Arab Staff
30 December, 2024
Calls Grow For Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza
Israel
MENA
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Rights groups file complaint against French-Israeli soldier

The New Arab Staff
17 December, 2024
Image of vigil for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in Washington DC on 17 December 2024
Israel
MENA
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Family of Turkish-US activist killed by Israel seek US probe

The New Arab
17 December, 2024
Photo of suspected mass graves unearthed near Damascus, Syria
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Bodies of women, children found in mass grave in southern Syria

The New Arab
17 December, 2024
Photo of US citizen Travis Timmerman after being released from prison in Syria
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Freed US citizen in Syria named as Travis Timmerman

The New Arab Staff
12 December, 2024
Palestinian and international doctors gather for a press conference to call for the treatment of 25,000 patients from Gaza . (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Gaza War
MENA
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Doctors urge medical evacuations from Gaza to east Jerusalem

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 December, 2024
Activists demonstrate against female child marriages in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on July 28, 2024,
Iraq
MENA
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Iraq MPs postpone vote on revised bill over child marriage

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 December, 2024
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26 November, 2024
The national flag of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, fluttering in the wind on a flagpole in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
human rights in Saudi Arabia
MENA
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Saudi executes more than 100 foreigners in 2024

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 November, 2024
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2003 US invasion of Iraq
MENA
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Palestinian refugees in Iraq deprived of right to 'own taxis'

The New Arab Staff
15 November, 2024