The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), welcomes the decision issued by the authorities on Monday, issued by the first vice president “Ali Osman Tahah”, to end the former security control – former on publishing- from all the newspapers in the Country. The former control, was a type of the hard security control that [...]
Cairo May 22, 2013 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) welcomes the acceptance of the Supreme Judicial Council of Kuwait to accept 22 women; graduates of law faculties in the Kuwait, out of 62 who applied for the job, for the first time after the Kuwaiti woman was banned from this field for [...]
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information congratulated Girifna movement for its nomination for the prestigious awareness award to at the Index on Freedom of Expression Awards 2013. in 2013. The final winners will be announced in a ceremony, in London, on March 21, 2013. “Girifna” was nominated for its tireless efforts in support of [...]
The European Parliament granted the Iranian lawyer and the human rights activist “Nessren” who are jailed “in Evin prison” for a duration of 6 years and the Iranian director “Gafar” who is imprisoned since 2010 as he was sentenced for 6 years imprisonment. The prize comes as a recognition of their efforts in the human rights field and freedom of [...]
The Danish newspaper Politiken awarded the prominent Bahraini human rights activist, who holds Danish citizenship, “Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja,” and sentenced to life imprisonment in Bahrain, the Freedom Award in recognition of his efforts in defending human rights and promoting democracy. The activist “Mariam Al-Khawaja,” Vice President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights”, will receive [...]
The Foundation will work in the spirit of Stieg Larsson by raising public awareness of basic democratic values, with special emphasis on freedom of speech. The Foundation also has the potential to give grants to or otherwise assist journalists who, at the risk of their own and their family’s life and safety, highlight the issues [...]
ANHRI welcomes Qatari Authorities Release of the Saudi Political Dissident Cairo September 17, 2012 ANHRI welcomes the release of the political dissident “Meshal Za’ar El-Matiri” by the Qatari authorities, on Thursday September 11, 2012 after being detained for 10 days in one of Doha’s prisons.T On the first of September th he Qatari authorities arrested [...]
Egypt still has a long way to go before it can be regarded as a state adhering to the rule of law. Gamal Eid from the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information accuses the Military Council of committing serious human rights abuses. Claudia Mende introduces the combative lawyer Gamal Eid does not restrain himself in [...]
Razan Ghazzawi; a Syrian blogger, was awarded the annual prize for threatened human rights defenders granted by the Dublin-based Frontline Defenders Foundation, as the foundation announced on Friday, June 8. Ghazzawi, who has become a symbol of the Syrian uprising, is currently on trial before a military court charged with “possessing prohibited materials with the [...]
Dr. Rola was No. 11 in the classification organized by “Arabian Business” magazine for the strongest 500 personal in the Arab world for 2012. Dr. Al-Saffar is an important symbol for human rights in Bahrain and the Arab world where she was one of the 20 Bahraini doctors and nurses who were sentenced to prison [...]
Cairo, 29 November, 2011 ANHRI welcomes the amnesty decision, issued yesterday by the president of UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, for the Emirati blogger and activist Ahmed Mansoor and other four fellow activists. Their sentences ranged from two to three years, as the court convicted them of “insulting the head of the state”, because of signing a [...]
Cairo, 16 November 2011 ANHRI welcomes the decision of the Egyptian Syndicate of Journalists, issued yesterday 15 November, which was made unanimously and provides that its member journalists shall not appear at the military prosecutions or military courts for investigation, stressing their constitutional rights as Egyptian citizens to appear before a civilian judge. “This [...]
ANHRI welcomed today the return of Libyan newspaper “ Al- Haqeqa” after forty years of Muammar Gaddafi’s confiscation to it and to its publishing houses in Benghazi. “ Al- Haqeqa” was previously very well-known and widespread newspaper before the arrival of Muammar Gaddafi to the power chair. An experimental issue of the newspaper has been [...]
Cairo, July 3, 2011 ANHRI welcomed today the issuance of the first issue of “Al- Tahrir” newspaper, headed by the great editor in- chief Ibrahim Issa and Chairman of the Board Ibrahim Al- M’alem. “Al- Tahrir” newspaper considered to be the first newspaper to be issued after the revolution of January 25, it has the [...]
CAIRO, June 23, 2011 ANHRI welcomed today the decision issued by Mauritanian government to abolish imprisonment in Publishing Cases and set a Financial Fine instead or Confiscation Of Property in case of inability to pay the fine, which is considered to be a step forward, in the way of press freedom from the specter of [...]
The Arabic Network welcomed the documentary “Shou Sar” by DeGaulle Eid winning the special committee award though it was barred by the Lebanese government. Censorship lifted the film name of the list of films played in Beirut Days Festival by instructions from security. As well , censorship asked the administration of Beirut international film festival [...]
27/9/2010 On 14/9/2010, the European Court for Human Rights ruled that the police has no right to inspect media premises or seize press material , that is to preserve the journalists’ rights to protect their sources according to article 19 and to CPJ and IFJ. First instance ruling was issued in March 2009 in Sanoma’s [...]
Cairo 25/9/2010 The Arabic Network welcomed the royal decree issued by Sultan Qaboos Bin Said on 22/9/2010 to abolish State Security Court in Oman. This will lead to forwarding all cases before State Security Court to normal courts of all degrees so that citizens will stand before their natural judge. The Arabic Network said that [...]
The Mauritanian journalists elected al-Hussein Weld Imdo Klol as their union leader after the first conference of the Mauritanian journalists syndicate conference . As well, a 17 member executive board was announced. This syndicate is the first trade union for workers in the press public sector. In the same occasion a parliamentary press solidarity group [...]
A Step Forward Al Last , the Kuwaiti Ladies Travel Freely The constitutional court in Kuwait issued an order giving Kuwaiti women the right to issue personal passports and travel without their husbands’ approvals. The court abolished an item in the Passport Act dating back to 1962 that stipulated husband approval of his wife issuing [...]
The Difficult Choice For Egyptian Bahá’ís : http://www.anhri.net/en/reports/2005/pr1226.shtml In a late step to correct a mistake made by the Egyptian civil status administration , as it stopped issuing identification papers for Egyptians other than Moslems, Christians and Jews since 2004, the first id card for an Egyptian Bahá’í was issued recently, carrying the sign (-) [...]
Though twelve years have passed, a Tunisian executioner trial in France A French court will be held on the 1st of December to consider torture allegations brought against a former Tunisian diplomat. The trial of Khalid Ben Said, former vice-consul to France following a lawsuit brought by Zulaikha Al-Arabi on allegedly torture she ws exposed [...]
On the coming 18th of October, the President of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Jim Boumelha, will visit Sanaa to hand in an award from the AMNESTY International for endangered journalists (2008) to Abdel Karim Al Khaiwani, a journalist and an opinion prisoner. Al-Khaiwani will be the first to win such new prize from [...]
He should have been accounted and prosecuted, for all what he committed of violations against the Pakistani people. But Pakistan, which is close to Arab in its administration fashion, is also far –as Arab government- from the principle of accountability, where the governor is combined of two equal parts God and Tyranny. He departed and [...]
