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Groups Call for Unconditional Release of Saudi Activist, Salma al-Shehab, After Sentence Reduction

January 16, 2025

Palestinians inspect damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a house amid the Israel-Hamas conflict at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 13, 2024. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on Ceasefire in Gaza: Accountability, Reparations, and the Path to Justice

January 15, 2025

--PHOTO TAKEN DURING A CONTROLLED TOUR AND SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY-- This picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli military on January 27, 2024, shows Israeli soldiers patrolling an area in Gaza's main southern city of Khan Yunis, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Nicolas GARCIA / AFP)

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Groups Call for Unconditional Release of Saudi Activist, Salma al-Shehab, After Sentence Reduction

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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

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Supporters of the Syria Solidarity Campaign hold placards as they protest opposite 10 Downing Street in central London on December 28, 2024, calling on the UK government uphold its humanitarian obligations and end the suspension of asylum applications for Syrians. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

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Europe's Rightward Turn on Migration Is a Backlash Against Human Rights Themselves

January 16, 2025

--PHOTO TAKEN DURING A CONTROLLED TOUR AND SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY-- This picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli military on January 27, 2024, shows Israeli soldiers patrolling an area in Gaza's main southern city of Khan Yunis, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Nicolas GARCIA / AFP)

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Could Israel's 'Immoral Witnesses' in Gaza Unwittingly Help End the IDF's Impunity?

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Groups Call for Unconditional Release of Saudi Activist, Salma al-Shehab, After Sentence Reduction

January 16, 2025

Supporters of the Syria Solidarity Campaign hold placards as they protest opposite 10 Downing Street in central London on December 28, 2024, calling on the UK government uphold its humanitarian obligations and end the suspension of asylum applications for Syrians. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Europe's Rightward Turn on Migration Is a Backlash Against Human Rights Themselves

January 16, 2025

Palestinians inspect damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a house amid the Israel-Hamas conflict at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 13, 2024. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on Ceasefire in Gaza: Accountability, Reparations, and the Path to Justice

January 15, 2025

Tag: Sisi

Displaced Palestinians walk next to the border fence between Gaza and Egypt, on February 16, 2024 in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. Nearly 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are trapped in Rafah -- more than half of Gaza's populations -- seeking shelter in a sprawling makeshift encampment near the Egyptian border. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

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How Sisi's Regime Took Egypt Hostage

January 31, 2024

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'Egypt's Problem Now Is Cruelty.' Ayman Nour on Life in Exile and the Magnitude of Sisi's Repression

An Egyptian police officer entering Tora Prison on the southern outskirts of Cairo, during a guided tour organized by Egypt's State Information Service, Feb. 11, 2020. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images)

Egypt: Sisi's Pardon Decision Excludes Country's 60,000 Political Prisoners

February 2, 2022

CAIRO, Nov. 19, 2015 -- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks after the signing ceremony held in the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, on Nov. 19, 2015. Egypt and Russia signed on Thursday an agreement to build a nuclear plant in the Arab country not long after a Russian plane crashed over Egypt's restive Sinai. (Xinhua/Pan Chaoyue via Getty Images)

U.S.: Sanction Egyptian Officials Implicated in Spying on U.S.-based Critics of Egyptian Government

January 6, 2022

Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat, former member of parliament and nephew of the late Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat, speaks to AFP in his office in the capital Cairo on September 13, 2018. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP) (Photo credit should read MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images)

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