Egypt: Wave of Unjust ‘Emergency’ TrialsProsecutions Fast-Tracked Despite End to State of Emergency Update December 20, 2021: An emergency court sentenced Alaa Abd al Fattah to...
Israel announces completion of ‘smart fence’ around Gaza StripIsrael on Tuesday announced the completion of a sensor-equipped underground wall on its side of the Gaza border, a counter-measure...
On Syria’s Ruins, a Drug Empire FlourishesPowerful associates of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, are making and selling captagon, an illegal amphetamine, creating a new...
Reversing Trump, Biden administration restores reproductive rights assessment to State Dept. reportThe U.S. State Department has restored assessments of global reproductive rights to its annual human rights report, another move by the...
How famines are formed: In Gaza and elsewhere, an underlying pattern that can lead to hunger and death