HUMAN RIGHTS

The daughter of the leading Bahraini human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike to protest the detention of family members, including her father, by the state security forces over their anti-government protest activities.

Senators John Kerry and John McCain introduced a tough new privacy bill on Tuesday that would require companies to give clear notice when consumers' data is being collected and to keep it safe from hackers.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated that soldiers loyal to Moammar Gaddafi are targeting and killing civilians during the government’s siege of the port city of Misrata, in direct defiance of international laws.

A prominent Egyptian blogger, Maikel Nabil, has been sentence to three years in prison after being convicted of “insulting the military and publishing false news,” according to his attorney.

A protest by students in Damascus Syria has turned into a melee after security forces beat some of the demonstrators up and arrested several others, according to the Associated Press.

Two anti-government activists in Bahrain have reportedly died in police custody weeks after they were first detained, as the government’s crackdown against opponents appear to be ever-hardening

In a report released Sunday, China's State Council Information Office hits out at the US government for practicing double standards on human rights and interfering with other countries' internal affairs while ignoring its own deep-rooted human rights issues.

The Bahraini authorities have beaten and arrested a prominent human rights activist, in another sign the ruling royal family will increase its crackdown against any dissent.

Once one of the most dangerous nations on earth, Jamaica has witnessed an astonishing decline in its murder rate, largely as a result of a police crackdown on gang activity.

The government of Bahrain’s increasingly brutal crackdown on protesters has even turned local hospitals into dangerous places, according to a new report from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

The rebel forces in Libya, whose vanguard has been blunted by fierce attacks by Gaddafi, have accused the NATO of failing to stop crucial supplies to the government forces.

In moves to appease the country’s conservatives, the Syrian government has dropped a rule that banned teachers from wearing a niqab (a veil that covers a woman’s face, except for her eyes) and closed the nation’s lone casino.

Libyan gunmen are reportedly shooting sub-Saharan refugees who seek to escape Libya by boat, according to a report in the UK newspaper The Independent.

While making his first official visit to Pakistan as Prime Minister, Britain’s leader David Cameron has made some comments about his country’s imperial past that has raised some hackles in London.

The wave of unrest and anti-government agitation in the Middle East may now have spread to the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Russia.

In an effort to appease protesters dissatisfied by his slow pace of reforms, the president of Syria Bashar al-Assad has appointed a new governor for the southern town of Deraa, the focal point of protests directed against the Baathist regime.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has awarded the Tor Project for championing Internet by protecting Anonymity in an era of social media revolutions in Middle East and the North African country Libya.

At least eight United Nations staff-members and four protesters have been killed during protests in Afghanistan related to a purported burning of a Holy Quran, according to Afghan officials.

Bahrain has stepped up its crackdown on anti-government protesters (almost all of whom are (Shia Muslims) by arresting at least 300 activists in one massive sweep, thereby sending untold others into hiding. Those detained included a prominent blogger, Mahmood al-Yousif.

Today’s much-anticipated speech from Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, failed to lift the country’s emergency laws (which have been in effect since 1963) nor did he offer any concrete political reforms or concessions.

Facebook has taken down a page created by Palestinian supporters which called for a new ‘intifada’ (uprising) against Israel, after Israel officials and U.S. Jewish groups complained.