Cairo June 18, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuing harassments of Maspero’s media-professionals by the administration against the backdrop of the editing policies and the guests in their shows. This comes after the legal affairs in the Radio and TV Union, since few days, had suspended the radio announcer [...]

 Cairo June 17, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continues violations committed by the Saudi regime against who show solidarity with the detainees and who demand the release of the detainees who languishing in the jails of the regime that represses all freedoms in addition to the continues targeting of [...]

Cairo June 16, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), expresses its severe denunciation regarding the fate of Iraqi journalists who were arrested by personnel affiliated to the Ministry of Defense without legal grounds. Two journalists who works for ANB, the Iraqi news agency; Mohamed Foud Tawfik the photographer in the Agency and [...]

Cairo on June 16, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the unjust prison sentence issued by the First Instance Court in the province of Ben Arous, in the north east of Tunisia, regarding convicting the Tunisian rapper “Alaa El-Yakoubi” known as “Weld El-Kanz”. The court had sentenced him to two years [...]

Cairo June 12, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces today sentencing the Syrian journalist Belal Ahmed for 15 years imprisonment by a Military Court against the background of his work and reporting the news that took place in Mo’damiyah El-Sham in 2011. The Syrian Field Military Court in the hearing held [...]

Cairo on June 11, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), expresses its deep annoyance regarding the violations committed against the activists, journalists, media-professionals and intellectuals in the Palestinian territories by the Israeli Occupation Forces and the Palestinian authorities. On 9th of June, the Occupation forces have prevented the Jordanian journalist “Waleed Hosni”, [...]

Cairo on June 11, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces today the continuing prosecutions of the activists, bloggers and intellectuals by the authorities on broaden charges, that aren’t used but by dictatorships, the recent sentence was issued of imprisoning a blogger for 11 years against the background of posts that Kuwait [...]

Cairo June 10, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said that the first library established by ANHRI titled “Khatwah Library” in Dar El-Salam District in Cairo. It has received more than 10.000 visitors during a year since the official inauguration in May 2012. It turned to be a complete culture and social [...]

Cairo, June 10, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces arresting “Abdulrahan Raya” a video engineer, without specific charges or clear grounds by the Syrian Security Forces. ANHRI also denounces the continuation of the violations suffered by the journalists and the media-professionals in Syria, whether by a regime that lost its legitimacy [...]

Cairo June 9, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces today the sentence issued against the Bahriani school teacher Khadijah Saaed of imprisoning her for six months on charges related to freedom of expression. A Bahraini court issued in the third of June 2013, a sentence to upheld imprisoning the school teacher [...]

Cairo June 9, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces today arresting an Egyptian journalist by the security services. He works for UAE Al-khaleej newspaper without clear reasons and isolating him from the outside world to be the second journalist arrested in the UAE after the arrest of Dr. Ahmed Gahfar “the [...]

Cairo June 9, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces investigation the Palestinian activist and the blogger “Abeer Qebti” by the Israeli police against the backdrop of an article in which she refused the conscription of the Christian Arabs in the Israeli army and criticized the participants in the meeting. Abeer had [...]

Tunisia June, 8, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), said that in the frame of its serious and continues sought to provide the largest possible support for the freedom of expression in the Arab world and to work on creating a free climate for media-professionals and online activists, therefore, it has developed [...]

Cairo June 8, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), said that the President and the Attorney General, which was appointed by the sole discretion of the president, became a burden on the rule of law and justice in a country that one of its important slogans in the revolution was freedom and [...]

Joint Press Release The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations condemn in the strongest terms the verdict issued on June 4 by the Cairo Criminal Court which convicted 43 staff members of international NGOs in the so-called “foreign funding case.” The defendants, who include nationals from Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, the US, Germany, Serbia, and Norway, received prison [...]

 Cairo June 6, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuation of intimidating the journalists, muzzling their voices and penalizing them against the background of their opinions and performing their duty by the Sudanese authorities, as they have arrested the Sudanese journalist “Khaled Ahmed” who works in “alsudani newspaper” last Thursday [...]

Cairo June 5, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces prosecuting alwahdawi newspaper by the Attorney General against the background of publishing an article in one of the issues asking for reasons of the slow investigation in the El-Karama case and not dealing with the corruption cases published by the newspapers which [...]

 Cairo June 4, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounced the unjust sentence issued by the Cairo Criminal Court, Thursday morning, against some of the activists and human rights organization in what is known in the media “Foreign Funding” case. This case was trumped up by the SCAF and some of the [...]

 Cairo June 4, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces arresting the journalist Audi Harabiat without known charges. The Israeli Occupation Forces have stormed on the dawn of May 27, 2013 the village of Tabkah in the western Khaleel in the West Bank and arrested the photographer and the activist in the [...]

Cairo June 4, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information(ANHRI), denounces the continuation of the violations against the media-professionals and the journalists in Lebanon, in the light of the failure of the authorities to provide the convenient circumstances to perform their job without fear in the light of a secured climate. The Lebanon territories, [...]

Cairo June 4, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the continuing use of the administrative investigations and penalties as a baton, by the administration of the Radio and TV Union, to muzzle the voices of the media-professionals who demand the liberation of the state-owned media and the non interference in the [...]

Joint Statement The undersigned organizations condemn the verdict by Bandar Assiut II court of Misdemeanor on the 1st of June 2013 in case no. 2939/2013 against Coptic Lawyer “Romani Murad Saad” sentenced in absentia to one year in prison and a 500 EGP fine as well as ordering him to pay a sum of 10 [...]

Cairo June 3, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights information (ANHRI), denounces the continuation of the Sudanese security services in sieging the opposition and independent newspapers and imposing its security fist on the newspapers that criticize the President Omar El-Bashir or his regime as Midan newspaper was suspended due to a security decision on [...]

Cairo June 3, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the trial of the activist Mohamed El-Zomor in a hearing held in camera as no one of his family didn’t known about it in addition to not notifying his lawyer to attend the hearing. The authorities have started on Thursday May 30, [...]

Cairo June 3, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the decision issued by the Press and Publications Department to block hundreds of website based on the articles of a law that restrict the press and expression freedom on the Internet, it was enacted in 2012. On the second of June 2013, [...]

Cairo June 3, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) expresses today its full solidarity with the demands of the artists and the intellectuals that reject the attempts of the new Minister of Culture “Alaa Abdel-Aziz” to Ikhwaniz the Ministry of Culture and to dismissing number of the leaders of the Ministry of [...]

Cairo June, 2, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the arrest of tens from a detainee family after releasing him as he spent 9 years in jail before releasing them, after few hours. The Security Forces arrested on Thursday May 30, 2013, tens of the family of Shiekh Abu-Maged “Mohamed Fahad [...]

Cairo June, 2, 2013   The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuing targeting the journalists by armed groups from Somalia after the journalist Abdulqader Abdulrazek Gama’ was shot who works of Royal and the Future Radio as he was targeted by armed me who aimed live ammunition on him.   Abdulrazek, [...]

Cairo June 1, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces today the decision issued by Omani court which sentencing the writer “Muslem Ben Masoud El-Ma’shni” for two months and fine him by 500 OR on charges of printing a book a book and began to disseminate it. The First Instance Court in [...]

Cairo May 30, 2013 Revolution’s Martyrs during the Reign of the SCAF The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), will held a press conference on 12:00 pm of the afternoon of Sunday June 2, 2013 in ANHRI’s headquarter loctaed in 2 Behlar passage, Off Kaser El-Nil st. Downtown to announce the issuance of the [...]

 Cairo May 30, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the sentences issued by Kuwaiti courts against number of bloggers, activists and journalists against the background of exercising their right to peaceful expression. The Kuwaiti Criminal Court, in the hearing held on Wednesday May 29, sentenced the blogger Sarah El-Darees to a [...]

Cairo May 29, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), sent telegraphs the day before yesterday to the First Attorney-General of the State-Security Prosecutions and the Attorney-General demanding an official photocopies of the documents of the case known in the media as “Black Bloc” and also assigning an investigation judge because of there [...]

Cairo May 28, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces repressing a peaceful demonstration, by the Moroccan Security Services, organized by February 20 movement the day before yesterday May 26, in several Moroccan areas demanding the release of the political detainees. February 20 movement called for peaceful demonstrations, on Sunday evening May [...]

 Cairo May 27, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the using of the security solution and violence by the security services in addressing the peaceful demonstration that was organized by number of the workers of the pre-operations contracts in Algeria, which led to several injuries among the protesters and the arrest [...]

Cairo May 27, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces continuing targeting the journalists and media-professionals on the Palestinian territories, whether by the authorities or the Occupation forces. The preventive security services in Palestine, on the dawn of Tuesday May 21, arrested number of the popular youth party in Tulkarem; among them [...]

Cairo May 26, 2013   The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the imprisonment sentences issued by the Bahraini courts against three of the prominent rights activists in Bahrain.   The Minor Criminal Court in the hearing of Wednesday of May 22, 2013, had issued an imprisonment sentence against the prominent rights’ activist [...]

 Cairo May 26, 2013 The Arabic Network of Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the decision issued by the national security and intelligence services, last Friday, to suspend the issuance of the two newspapers without reasons. The Administration of al-Intibah newspaper received a decision of notification of suspension the newspaper for a week from the security [...]

Cairo May 25, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), welcomes the decision issued by the Kuwaiti court of acquitting the Blogger Hamed El-Khaldi from the charges of insulting the Emir after a decision of imprisonment was issued against him by the Criminal Court .. The Kuwaiti Court of Appeal in the hearing [...]

Cairo May 23, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces aiming live ammunition on by the teamwork of Aljazeera English by unknown armed men while they were performing media-job and covering the event in Tripoli in the North of the Capital Beirut without clear reasons. The teamwork of the Sabah Channel, on [...]

Cairo May 23, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces continuing targeting the journalists and media-professionals on the Palestinian territories, whether by the authorities or the Occupation forces. The Palestinian Preventive Security Services had on Sunday May 19, arrested the journalist “Mohamed Basharat” in the Governorate of Tobas after he was summoned [...]

Cairo May 23, 2013 ANHRI holds the regime criminally responsible regarding the continuation of targeting the media-professionals and the journalists who cover the events in the Syrian territories and what these events included from serious violations.   The Syrian territories witnessed recently, the murder of number of journalists and media-activists during covering the killing operations [...]

Cairo May 23, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the decision issued by the UAE Court of Appeal to upheld the imprisonment sentence issued by the First Instance Court against Abdullah al-Hadidi for ten months… as it decided in the hearing of Wednesday May 22, to reject the appeal submitted by [...]

Cairo May 25, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the detention of the political analyst “Ibrahim Arbash” by the Internal Preventive Services in HAMAS and investigating him for few hours on the background of articles published to him; critics to HAMAS and Qaradawi’s visit to Gaza strip. The Internal Preventive Services [...]

Cairo May 22, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuation of detaining the blogger and the activist “Mustafa El-Hesnawi” by the Moroccan Security Services since he was arrested on Thursday May 16, 2013 without mentioning the reasons or the accusations which led to his arrest. He is a blogger and [...]

Cairo May 22, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuation of the security services in targeting the activists on the social networks websites and arresting them without charges or judicial orders. The Omani Security Forces had on Monay May 20, arrested the blogger and the activist on Facebook “Ziab El-Amri” [...]

Cairo May 22, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the decision of the Minister of Information of rejecting to allow a new collection of poems to the stateless poet “Ahmed El-Raslani” for flimsy reasons that shows the Ministry of Information flopped policy. The Stateless poet “El-Raslani” had announced at the evening [...]

 Cairo May 21, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces preventing the issuance of the issue of Sunday May 19 of “djaridati” its French version “mon journal” and the Attorney General Act of Conducting a Judicial Investigation with the manager “Hesham Aboud”, against the background of publishing a file on the health [...]

Cairo May 21, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the arrest of the brothers of the female martyrs “Bahiah El-Aradi” after raiding their house without known reasons. The Security forces of Bahrain have invaded the house of the brothers of “El-Aradi” after sieging the area in Manama and the prevention of [...]

Cairo May 21, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuing targeting of the Palestinian authorities to the journalists and sending them to investigation against the background of their press work. As the Palestinian Preventive Security Service investigated, on Wednesday, the journalist “Omar Abuarkoub” the Editor of the Israeli affairs in [...]

Cairo May 20, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the inaction of the Yemeni authorities regarding providing the required protection of the media-professionals and the journalists in performing their job along with the continuation of abducting the journalists and media-professionals by armed groups; some of them were unknown.  A big number [...]

Cairo May 20, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the repeated assaults against the Iraqi journalists and media-professionals during performing their work, whether by the bodies affiliated to the states or armed men affiliated to some Iraqi figures. Some officers and soldiers affiliated to the brigade 54 under the command of [...]

Cairo May 18, 2013   The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces today arresting the opposing artists by the Syrian regime without clear charges or reasons. This comes in the frame of an escalation step from the regime against the opposing intellectuals. The security forces arrested the female artist “Mai Scaf” known by [...]

  Cairo on May 19, 2013     The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the physical assault suffered number of the journalists by a group of unknown people who destroyed their camera and intimidated them in order to ban them from doing their work. This took place last Friday while the journalists [...]

Cairo May 18, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the use of the excessive force by the Israeli Occupation Forces in addressing the peaceful demonstrations to remember the day of the Catastrophe in the town of “Al-Eziriah”, which led to several injuries among the demonstrators. The Occupation Forces have used the [...]

Cairo on May 19, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces today the stopping of a talk show program broadcast on “El-Youm” TV satellite channel by the Ministry of Information due to charges of harming the national unity. The Kuwaiti Ministry of Information stopped airing a talk show, in a fact for [...]

Cairo May 15, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces preventing of the writer “Ali El-Elyani” from writing in the newspaper by the Watan Newspaper Administration against background of an article to the minister of Interior. Watan Saudi-Arabian newspaper that is published by the Asser Foundation for press and publishing had stopped [...]

In its annual report on the Freedom of Expression in Egypt and the Arab world in 2012 Cairo May 15, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), announces the issuance of its annual report for fre edom o f expression in Egypt and the Arab world for 2012. It monitors the violations to [...]

Cairo May 14, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the persistence of the violations suffered by the newspapers and journalists in Yemen in the light of the clear inaction of the Yemeni authorities regarding providing the sufficient protection to them. The Headquarter of “El-Gomhoriah” newspaper which is located in the El-Hgafi [...]

Cairo May 9, 2013   The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) expresses its deep condemns regarding the inaction of the Public Prosecution related to performing their job regarding the impunity of the defendants, who are accused of killing demonstrators in 2 and 3 February 2011 in the case known in the media as [...]

Cairo May 9, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), expresses its deep concern regarding the approval of the House of Representatives related to the amendments of the law of peaceful assembly and marches in order to restrict the peaceful demonstrations and make it lie under the security feast to silence the Bahraini [...]

Cairo May 9, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the arrest of “Mohamed Hussien”, Jerusalem Mufti, yesterday for a few hours on the pretext of investigating him in the events that took place in the old town in the occupied Jerusalem and accusing him of disturbance. The occupation forces had, on [...]

Cairo May 8, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the imprison sentence to some number of protesters among them children by a Bahraini court on the background of demonstrating in several areas in Bahrain after the court pressed the charges of assembly and possessing Molotov. The Major Criminal Court I, in [...]

Cairo May 8, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the continuation of the regime to prosecute the Saudi activists and the rights’ defenders and hinder any efforts inside the regime that aim to establish independent organizations to defend human rights, disseminating the culture of human rights among the citizens or defending [...]

Cairo May 7, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) expresses its deep concern regarding the life of the rights’ activist “Nagy Fateel” who was arrested at the end of the last week. The Bahraini security forces, in civil costumes, have on the dawn of May 2, 2013, stormed the house of the [...]

Cairo May 6, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces sentencing a Saudi blogger for five years by a Kuwaiti Court, on the background of accusing him of insulting the Emir. On the first of May 2013, The Kuwaiti court sentenced, in absentia, “Abdulaziz El-Mutari” the Saudi blogger for five years of [...]

Cairo May 5, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the harsh sentence of five years and six months imprisonment and a bail of 30. 000 EGP to suspend the execution by the Misdemeanor Court of New Cairo against six activists who demonstrated to pledge the solidarity with members of the Black [...]

Journalists still challenging restriction, lack of political will to free press and media Cairo, 2nd May 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said that the world will celebrate on Friday 3rd of May, the International Day for the freedom of press, while journalists and media workers in Egypt are challenging severe restrictions by [...]

 Cairo May 2, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces repressing the peaceful marches by the security forces that took place in several areas during celebrating the labor day, resulted in several injuries among the demonstrators. ANHRI also denounces the arrest of some journalists who covered the events by the security forces. [...]

Cairo May 2, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), expresses its relative relief regarding the sentences issued by the Kuwaiti courts to bloggers and journalists who were facing charges of insulting the Emir. The Kuwaiti Criminal Court in the hearing held in the first of May, issued decisions to acquit the Chief [...]

 Cairo April 30, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the persistence of the authorities to siege the artistic creativity and harassing the performances that include thoughts and ideas against the orientations of the ruling party, Freedom and Justice Party, after the culture house of Hurghada stopped the play of “Cows’ Diwan”. [...]

Cairo April 30, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the sentence issued by the Kuwait Appellate Court which sentenced the blogger “al-hashash” for a year instead of the Criminal Court sentence which was issued against him for two years imprisonment on the background of twitts on twitter. The Appellate Court in [...]

 Cairo April 30, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces sentencing “Dr. Abdulkarim Yusuf al-khader” for four days today by a Saudi court. The Algerian Court in Briadah in the hearing held in April 25, 2013, headed by the president the judge “Ibrahim Abdullah El-Hosni”, had issued a decision of sentencing Dr. [...]

Cairo April 29, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces the decision of the Communication and Media Commission (CMC) of Iraq to suspend licenses of ten satellite channels on allegations of inciting the sectarian strife in Iraq. On Sunday, April 28, 2013, CMC issued a decision to suspend the license of ten [...]

Cairo April 28, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), expresses its deep relief today to the decision of freezing the draft bill of the Unified Media Law, which arouse wide controversy during the last few days, as the law includes articles that restrict the freedom of the press, media and Internet. The [...]

Cairo April 24, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) denounces the dropping of all the charges pressed on the journalist “Emarah El-Khatabi” who was arrested in the last January against the background of publishing list of the names of some judges who are suspected of involving in corruption cases, he published via [...]