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Saudi Arabia Must Not Extradite Peaceful Protester to Egypt, Where He Would Face Torture

December 6, 2024

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - AUGUST 24: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with fellow Brics leaders pose for a family photo with new Bric members at the last day of the Brics summit fellow leaders president, Xi Jinping, China's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, and Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, Iranian president is Ebrahim Raisi, on the closing day of the BRICS summit at the Sandton Convention Center in the Sandton district of Johannesburg on August 24, 2023, South Africa. The Brics summit, held in South Africa between 22-24 August 2023. Brics is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. New Members are Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia. Some of the things are discussed during the summit is if to expand Brics and accept new members like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and a Brics currency. Vladimir Putin wanted to attend the meetings but South African president Cyril Ramaphosa managed to talk him out of it, as he risked being arrested while in in South Africa, as the ICC, International Criminal Court has issued a warrant of arrest for Mr. Putin's on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of people from the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Advocacy

Saudi Arabia Must Not Extradite Peaceful Protester to Egypt, Where He Would Face Torture

December 6, 2024

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Teneo's Propaganda Campaign and Subpoena Evasion: Shielding Saudi Arabia From Accountability

November 13, 2024

A defaced portrait of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad stands above a ransacked government security facility, in Damascus, on December 8, 2024. Islamist-led rebels declared on December 8, that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Photo by Rami al SAYED / AFP)

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December 10, 2024

DAMASCUS, SYRIA - DECEMBER 09: Syrians holding 'revolution flag' gather at Umayyad Square to celebrate the collapse of 61 years of Baath Party rule with songs and convoys of cars in Damascus, Syria on December 09, 2024. (Photo by Emin Sansar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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December 9, 2024

Saudi Arabia Must Not Extradite Peaceful Protester to Egypt, Where He Would Face Torture

December 6, 2024

Advocacy

Tunisian lawyer Radhia Nasraoui (C) Samar Badawi (R) , wife of Saudi-Arabian lawyer and human rights activist Waleed Abu al-Khair, receive the Olof Palme Prize 2013, awarded by Lisbet Palme (L) at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, Sweden on January 25, 2013. The Olof Palme Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of late Olof Palme and consists of a diploma and 75,000 US dollars. AFP PHOTO / ANDERS WIKLUND / SCANPIX/ SWEDEN OUT (Photo credit should read ANDERS WIKLUND/AFP via Getty Images)

DAWN joins global coalition of rights groups to demand release of Saudi women's rights defenders

Our organisations remain highly concerned about the continued arbitrary detention of women’s rights defenders including Loujain Al-Hathloul, Nassima al-Saddah, Samar...

November 25, 2020

DAWN joins hundreds of scholars and rights advocates in solidarity with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

Together with 13 partner organizations, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) today urged former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

November 24, 2020

WASHINGTON, USA - NOVEMBER 3: Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch testifies during a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on Human Rights in Egypt in Washington, USA on November 3, 2015. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

DAWN's Sarah Leah Whitson Testifies on Saudi Arabia before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

Remarks of Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World Now, to the Tom Lantos Human Rights...

November 11, 2020

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 09: Hillary Clinton speaks at the Jewish Labor Committee's Annual Human Rights Awards Dinner on December 9, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

DAWN joins 13 organizations in asking Hillary Clinton to withdraw from UAE government event

Together with 13 partner organizations, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) today urged former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...