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Palestinian prisoner Gaza
Gaza War
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Many families in Gaza are asking about those Israel disappeared

"Every time I fail to obtain one piece of information about them, my fear and anxiety increases. We do not even know if they are alive, or they were killed."

Sally Ibrahim
15 January, 2025
Israeli forces beat a 66-year-old prominent Palestinian to death [Screengrab/X]
Israeli occupation
MENA
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Israeli forces kill elderly Palestinian activist in brutal raid

The New Arab Staff
07 October, 2024
Alaa Abdel Fattah
Alaa Abdel Fattah
MENA
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Egypt: Alaa Abdel Fattah’s family anxious as release date nears

The New Arab Staff
20 September, 2024
Israel returns bodies of two Jordanians who crossed border, attacked Israeli soldiers
Jordan
MENA
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Health of jailed Jordan journalist Hassan Al-Zoubi deteriorates

The New Arab Staff
09 September, 2024
Gaza
MENA
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Jailed Palestinian author wins prestigious fiction award

The New Arab Staff
29 April, 2024
Egypt
MENA
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Egyptian court sentences Ahmed Tantawi to a year in prison

Thaer Mansour
07 February, 2024
Rached Ghannouchi
MENA
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Tunisia: Ennahda leader Ghannouchi handed new jail term

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 February, 2024
Iranian jail
Spain
MENA
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Spanish woman freed from Iran jail after four months

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 March, 2023
Iran
MENA
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Iran sentences Austrian to 7.5 years in jail for 'spying'

The New Arab Staff
22 February, 2023
Iran protests
MENA
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Frenchman held in Iran starts new hunger strike: sister

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 February, 2023
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
MENA
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14 NGOs call for immediate release of Mohammed al-Qahtani

The New Arab Staff
24 November, 2022
Iran protesters
MENA
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Iran 'weaponises sexual violence against detainees': report

The New Arab Staff
22 November, 2022
Alaa's family
Alaa Abdel-Fattah
World
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Alaa Abdel-Fattah: Thousands sign petition for release

The New Arab Staff
27 August, 2022
Saudi Arabia
MENA
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Saudi activists call for release of jailed cleric and sons

The New Arab Staff
24 August, 2022
Iran
MENA
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Iran court confirms Frenchman's 8-year sentence: lawyer

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 June, 2022
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt imprisons dozens in 2014 Rabaa sit-in case

The New Arab Staff
08 June, 2022
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt's Sisi pardons journalist, more than 3,000 convicts

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 April, 2022
Israel
MENA
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Israel pressured to end case against Palestinian aid-worker

The New Arab Staff
01 March, 2022
Uighur
World
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World Uyghur Congress founder's brother handed life in China

The New Arab Staff
01 June, 2021
Loujain al-Hathloul -Twitter
women's rights
MENA
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Saudi women's rights activist sentenced to five years imprisonment

The New Arab Staff
28 December, 2020
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Twitter
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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Iran postpones new trial of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: husband

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 September, 2020