OHCHR concerned over increasing restrictions on fundamental freedoms in Algeria

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Michelle Bachelet, has reiterated serious concern about the serious human rights violations and growing restrictions imposed by Algerian authorities on fundamental freedoms. “In Algeria, I am concerned about the growing restrictions on fundamental Read more

Erdogan following closely investigation into Saudi reporter’s disappearance

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey Sunday said he is closely monitoring investigations into the disappearance of a Saudi dissident journalist. The statement comes after Turkish security sources told Reuters they believed the political commentator who has gone into self-imposed Read more

KSA: U.S.-based dissent journalist disappears at Saudi Consulate in Istanbul

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who fled the country last year after emerging as a critic of the government, has gone missing after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, for paperwork on Tuesday. Khashoggi, according to his Turkish fiancée Read more

Lebanon: Hannibal Gadhafi questioned for disappearances of Lebanese cleric

Abducted last week by a group believed to be followers of the Lebanese Shia cleric Moussa al-Sadr before being handed over to the police a few days later, Hannibal Gadhafi the last son of the assassinated Libyan leader following an Read more

Ahmed Mansour, the man at the center of the scandal

Controversial Al-Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour has been lately at the center of a scandal, this time not because he is under an Egyptian arrest warrant nor because he has been arrested by the German police at Berlin’s airport, but because he insulted in the most Read more