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Egypt: NGO ‘foreign funding’ case acquittals must lead to end of crackdown on human rights community

Responding to the news that the South Cairo Criminal Court this morning acquitted all 43 defendants in the retrial of Egypt’s notorious “foreign funding” case – also known as Case 173 - Najia Bounaim, Amnesty International’s North Africa Campaigns Director said: “Today’s acquittal of all 43 NGO workers in the first ‘foreign funding’ case is a step in the right direction for Egyptian justice. This was a bogus case that targeted human rights defenders simply for doing their legitimate work and should never have happened in the first place.

Date:
20 December 2018
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Detention

UAE: Fears grow for health of unjustly imprisoned academic

The authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) must immediately and unconditionally release Dr Nasser bin Ghaith, a prisoner of conscience whose health has deteriorated sharply in recent days, said Amnesty International today. Dr Nasser bin Ghaith is serving a 10-year sentence for criticizing the UAE in comments posted on Twitter after a grossly unfair politically motivated trial. “News that Dr Nasser bin Ghaith’s health has deteriorated sharply leaving him too weak to stand up and causing him to start losing his eyesight, is deeply alarming.

Date:
20 December 2018
  • Campaigns
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Censorship and Freedom of Expression

United Arab Emirates: Further Information: Hunger-Striking Academic In Critical Condition: Dr Nasser bin Ghaith

Dr Nasser bin Ghaith’s health has severely deteriorated. The prominent Emirati economist and academic has been on hunger strike for over 70 days in al-Razeen prison in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to protest the detention conditions and the denial of access to medical care. He is a prisoner of conscience.

Date:
20 December 2018
Ref:
MDE 25/9621/2018
  • Research
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Detention

Algeria: Forced to leave: Stories of injustice against migrants in Algeria

Over the past two decades Algeria has become a country of transit or final destination of many nationals from West and Central Africa looking for employment opportunities in a variety of sectors, mainly construction and agriculture. Yet despite the large number of Sub-Saharan migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the country, Algeria still lacks a clear legal framework for migrant workers and has a law criminalizing irregular migration making it an offence punishable by up to five years in prison.

Date:
20 December 2018
Ref:
MDE 28/9512/2018
  • Blog
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Technology and Human Rights

When Best Practice Isn’t Good Enough: Large Campaigns of Phishing Attacks in Middle East and North Africa Target Privacy-Conscious Users

Summary We have identified several campaigns of credentials phishing, likely operated by the same attackers, targeting hundreds of individuals spread across the Middle East and North Africa. In one campaign, the attackers were particularly going after accounts on popular self-described “secure email” services, such as Tutanota and ProtonMail. In another campaign, the attackers have been targeting hundreds of Google and Yahoo accounts, successfully bypassing common forms of two-factor authentication.

Date:
19 December 2018
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa

MENA governments must end discriminatory crackdowns and abuse of migrants

Governments across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are collectively failing to protect the rights of migrants in their countries, said Amnesty International, marking International Migrants Day. Across the region, migrants regularly face discrimination, exploitation and other forms of abuse as well as in some cases arbitrary arrest, detention and unlawful expulsion. Whether they are sub-Saharan African migrants passing through North African countries on their way to Europe or domestic or construction workers from Asia living in the Gulf or other parts of the Middle East, too often they are unprotected by labour laws, left vulnerable to abuse or are forcibly deported because their irregular status is criminalized.

Date:
18 December 2018
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Detention

Egypt: Court orders release of woman human rights defender imprisoned for speaking out against sexual harassment

Egyptian authorities must immediately comply with a court decision to release Amal Fathy, a woman human rights defender who was given a two-year sentence in September for posting a video online in which she criticized the Egyptian authorities for failing to tackle sexual harassment. A Cairo criminal court today ordered Amal Fathy’s release on probation after accepting her appeal against her pre-trial detention in relation to a separate case, in which she is charged with “belonging to a terrorist group”, “broadcasting ideas calling for terrorist acts” and “publishing fake news”.

Date:
18 December 2018
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Justice Systems

Morocco: Hirak El-Rif appeal must deliver justice after deeply flawed trial

Dozens of journalists, protesters and others detained in connection with Hirak El-Rif peaceful protests have been denied their right to a fair trial by Casablanca’s first instance court, said Amnesty International, as it published analysis exposing serious flaws in the trial, as the second appeal hearing session gets underway. Fifty-four people with ties to the Hirak El-Rif social justice protests were convicted of security-related offences and sentenced to prison terms of up to 20 years by a Casablanca court in June 2018, in relation to protests that took place in Al Hoceima in 2016 and 2017.

Date:
17 December 2018
  • Research
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Demonstrations

Morocco: Hirak El-Rif appeal, a chance to reverse unfair trial

On 26 and 28 June 2018, a Casablanca court sentenced 54 people to heavy prison terms for their involvement in the Hirak El-Rif protests that took place in the northern Rif region of Morocco in 2017. On 21 August, 11 of them were granted a royal pardon. Four of them were provisionally released in June and July 2017; the other 39 are serving their sentences in Casablanca’s Ain Sabaa 1 (Okacha) prison. On 17 December, Casablanca's appeal court will hear the cases of the remaining 43 individuals convicted in the second session.

Date:
17 December 2018
Ref:
MDE 29/9398/2018
  • Research
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Prisoners of Conscience

Bahrain: Joint letter to Bahraini authorities: Drop all charges and release Nabeel Rajab

We the undersigned call on Bahraini authorities to release Nabeel Rajab immediately, to repeal his convictions and sentences, and drop all charges against him. On 31 December 2018 the Court of Cassation in Bahrain may issue its verdict in the appeal of the five-year prison sentence handed to him for peaceful comments posted and retweeted on his Twitter account about the killing of civilians in the Yemen conflict by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition, and allegations of torture in Jau prison.

Date:
16 December 2018
Ref:
MDE 11/9588/2018
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Armed Conflict

The Islamic State's toxic legacy is an environmental catastrophe, too | Opinion

Note: This originally appeared in Newsweek. As we drive up, the desolate farm in the shadow of north-western Iraq’s Sinjar Mountain looks like many others in the area. The farmhouse is abandoned, the fields are barren. A neighbour, curious about our visit, wanders over and explains that the owner used to grow olives, wheat and vegetables. But, like half of the farmers in this village, he and his family haven’t returned since fleeing from the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) four years ago.

Date:
14 December 2018
  • Research
  • Iraq
  • Armed Conflict

Iraq: Dead land: Islamic State's deliberate destruction of Iraq's farmland

One year after Iraq declared military victory over the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) our report finds that IS’s deliberate destruction of Iraq’s rural environment continues to have debilitating effects on poor, small-holder farmers. The research focuses on the area around Sinjar, scene to some of the most extensive destruction. Irrigation wells were often sabotaged with rubble, oil, or other foreign objects, and pumps, cables, generators and transformers stolen or destroyed.

Date:
13 December 2018
Ref:
MDE 14/9510/2018
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Armed Conflict

Iraq: Islamic State’s destructive legacy decimates Yezidi farming

Legacy of IS scorched-earth tactics still devastates rural communities Sabotage of irrigation wells and other destruction amounts to war crimes Across Iraq, vast destruction deters hundreds of thousands from returning to rural areas As part of its brutal campaign against northern Iraq’s Yezidi minority, the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) committed war crimes and crimes against humanity when it sabotaged irrigation wells and destroyed other farming infrastructure, Amnesty International said in a new report today.

Date:
13 December 2018