MIDDLE EAST

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

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Bahrain’s political prisoners: resistance against the odds

Democratic partners must prove their human rights commitment by urging reform

Iran: one year on, what’s changed?

Discontent likely to flare up again

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

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

‘People have lost confidence in an international system that fails to protect the powerless against the powerful’

Syria back in the fold

Authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad welcomed back into the Arab League despite widespread rights abuses

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘We dream of hundreds of thousands demonstrating for democracy, equality and human rights’

Israel: assault on judicial independence the tip of the iceberg

Protest movement rises – but needs to acknowledge the full reality of repression

Bahrain: a botched whitewashing attempt

Hosting of Inter-Parliamentary Union summit inadvertently throws the spotlight on denial of democracy and human rights