MIDDLE EAST

‘Commercial spyware that enables digital repression and abuse must be completely banned’

Access Now | JORDAN

‘The regime is executing protesters to create fear and suppress any attempt at new mobilisation’

Asal Abasian | IRAN

‘The regime uses executions to maintain its grip on power through fear and intimidation’

Jasmin Ramsey | IRAN

‘Civil society has taken the lead in advocating for social change, human rights and political reforms’

Fadel Fakih | LEBANON

‘Lack of a political horizon leading to the liberation of Palestinians has brought us here’

Abdalaziz Alsalehi | PALESTINE

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘We are caught in limbo, neither at war nor at peace, with state institutions nearly collapsed’

Radhya Almutawakel | YEMEN

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘It is clear that most people don’t support the regime anymore and want it gone’

Asal Abasian | IRAN

‘We spread the culture of human rights in a country with one of the world’s worst human rights records’

Fadel Abdul Ghany | SYRIA

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘Had there been civic freedoms, the authorities would have known of the deep suffering at Jau Prison’

Jawad Fairooz | BAHRAIN

‘The severity of the crackdown only shows how scared the regime is of the protest movement’

Sohrab Razaghi | IRAN