Arab World

The Bahraini political detainee and is sentenced to life, Sayyed Abbas Mahdi, who is in prison for 10 years now, has directed a message to the OHCHR, calling on him to increase observers at the Bahraini prisons. In his message,…

Brazil, the world’s leading exporter of halal meat and poultry, is now seeking to expand the selection of food products it could potentially export to the world’s 57 Muslim-majority nations, as well as Islamic communities in other countries, media outlets…

On the International Women’s Day, the Shirazi World Foundation called on the leaders and peoples of Arab and Islamic countries alike to work to restore the true rights of women, and to move away from the agendas pursued by some…

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) denounced violations committed by the Tunisian authorities aimed at silencing and restricting freedom of speech, guaranteed by local and international laws. In a statement received by Shia Waves Agency the Organization said that, “Recurrent…

Saudi forces have reportedly raided houses in the kingdom’s Shia-majority and oil-rich Eastern Province and arrested nearly a dozen young men. The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula (CDHRAP) said in a statement that Saudi…

The United Nations on Wednesday (Jan 24) inscribed an ancient city and its dam in war-torn Yemen and a futurist park in cash-strapped Lebanon on its world heritage list. The UN cultural agency listed both as world heritage sites in…

A wave of strong fury and denunciation has swept the Arab and Islamic world after the far-right member in Sweden, Hard Line. Paludan, burned a copy of the Holy Qu’ran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm, in a…

Since August 10, 2022, 14 Bahraini political prisoners have been languishing under horrific human rights violations in Jaw Prison, cut off from the outside world and unable to communicate between them and their families. Americans for Democracy and Human Rights,…

12 people were killed and wounded, as the Saudi border guards continue shelling the border areas in Saada Governorate, northern Yemen. Medical sources in the governorate stated that the Saudi artillery shelling resulted in the death of a citizen and…

Armed groups in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, carried out seven new violations, the Russian Center for Coordination and Reconciliation in Syria reported. The radicals of the ‘Junta for the Liberation of the Levant’, formerly al-Nousra Front, a group…