Days after the massacre of more than 100 people in Houla, many of them women and children, U.N. monitors in Syria reported continued violence.  The bodies of 13 men were found bound and shot near the eastern city ...

The head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) announced Monday that he expected a likely delay in the national assembly election set for June 19.  The assembly is tasked with drawing up a new constitution in preparation for an additional election ...

The Algerian National Independent Commission of Legislative Election Surveillance (CNISEL) released  disappointment in the gap between official promises of election neutrality and the traditional voter manipulation that took place. The Commission lacks the power, however, to nullify the ...

The Tunisian Union of Judges has called a strike in protest of the firing of 81 judges. Minister of Justice Noureddine Bhiri announced that the judges were fired under accusations of corruption and ties to the former regime, defending the ...

Human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja, sentenced last week to a month in prison, was released on bail yesterday after serving over a month in prison since her arrest in April. She is due back in court on June 24 to ...

  The Yemen Times reported that Yemeni citizens have been kidnapped and tortured by government forces for expressing their opinions or supporting the revolution since it began. Marwan al-Dawsari, the Executive Director of the Organization for Equality (a Yemeni ...

Activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja has ended a 110-day hunger strike, in part because he feels that the strike has successfully drawn attention to the anti-government movement in Bahrain. Al-Khawaja is awaiting a retrial on charges of plotting to overthrow the state, while ...

  Iran's Foreign Ministry refuted claims Monday from both Bahrain and Kuwait of interference and spying respectively. Bahrain convicted eight people Sunday of conspiring with Iran to overthrow Bahrain's monarchy. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast denied any ...

Thousands of Moroccans rallied in anti-government protests in Casablanca on Tuesday.  According to AFP news, 15,000 to 20,000 took to the streets to protest the slow pace of social reform by the Benkirane government. The protests were organized by Morocco's trade ...

According to Al Jazeera,  joint UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has held talks with Bashar al-Assad after the UN human rights office declared that more than 85 people who were killed in the Houla region were "summarily executed".  Annan "conveyed in frank terms ...

Reuters reported that voters were "dismayed at what many see as a painful second-round choice between an Islamist apparatchik and a throwback to Hosni Mubarak's era." The two remaining candidates are Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi and former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq. Hamdin Sabbahi, ...

The U.S. Department of State released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011. Particular emphasis was placed on the Middle East and North Africa, where developments in the Arab Spring led to significant changes in ...

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) wrote a response to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report, in which it welcomed the increase in the number of recommendations from nine last year to 176 this year. Though BCHR recognized ...

On Thursday, Syria’s newly elected parliament held its first session. President Bashar al-Assad’s Ba’ath party continues to hold a large majority of the seats in the new assembly. Ali Haider with the National Front for Change and Liberation party ...

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said eleven Lebanese citizens who had been kidnapped in Syria were handed over to Turkish authorities and would soon return to Beirut. The victims, all of whom are Shi’ite, were returning to Lebanon from a ...

On Wednesday, the World Bank came to an agreement with Yemen totaling $61 million to fund the Labor Intensive Public Works Project. “Citizens need to see their government deliver services and this project is rightly focused on marginalized and ...

    Marc Lynch writes that, despite what Nathan Brown terms “the stupidest transition in history,” the ruling military council has done the most important thing right - it has remained committed to transferring power to an elected government on schedule. ...

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report detailing human rights abuses in Syria. While Syrian forces were found responsible for a majority of the serious human rights abuses committed, the report contends there is evidence the opposition has ...