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A two million dollar US lobbying effort and petitions from European lawmakers are piling pressure on Saudi Arabia to release…

Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested a dual national last week in Tehran linked to Britain's intelligence service, the…

Montreal academic Homa Hoodfar was preparing to return to Canada from Iran in March when agents from Iran's powerful paramilitary…

Press release (21:35 hrs, Thursday 24 January 2014): Egyptian State Security Investigations Service detain US citizen and Egyptian filmmaker without charge…

Syrian activists and other citizens have vanished into secret detention as part of a “widespread campaign of terror against the…

  Hundreds of protesters demonstrated before the Public Prosecution's headquarters in Alexandria on Saturday to demand the release of 13…

The Egyptian Social Democratic Party said Friday that the armed forces detained Thursday three of its members who took part…

A Guinean graduate student at The American University in Cairo (AUC) was arrested 30 April in the Gambian capital of…

Coincidentally, as Tora prison marks its 83rd anniversary in May, toppled President Hosni Mubarak will celebrate his 83rd birthday. Not…

On Friday, 25 March, Egyptian-American engineer Mohamed Radwan, 32, was arrested and detained in Damascus by Syrian authorities while photographing…