Twenty-something Saudi activist,  Hawad Al Akeel, arrested nine days ago, in the city of Buraidah - for participating in protests calling for the release of political prisoners in Saudi, is in very poor health. Saudi authorities have denied treatment to the vocal activist and supporter for reform and freedom in Saudi. Akeel has been previously arrested for his support of wrongfully detained...

Saudi Bahia Sulaiman Al Rashoodi has been sentenced to four months in prison for calling for the release of her father, Sulaiman al Rashoodi, who has been detained since 2011. Former judge and president of the Saudi Association of Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA), the 76-year old Sulaiman, was most recently detained in 2007 and later convicted in 2011 for attempting to establish a human rights...

In 2008, in the midst of writing about a new law concerning Iranian women requiring a male guardian’s permission to leave the country, I stopped for a moment, closed my eyes and listened to my surroundings. The fast, mechanical sounds of typing took me back to the newsrooms in Iran before I left in 2006. A voice startled me from my reverie and returned me to my small living room that I...

 The Daily Beast recently featured Cyberdissidents blogger Maikel Nabil as one of six best Egypt bloggers to follow. They said: “While he’s not actually on the ground in Egypt anymore, Maikel Nabil remains an influential" and highly controversial"figure in Egypt. “A lot of Egyptians don’t see eye to eye with his policies, since he’s pro-normalization with Israel,”...

On Tuesday, November 6, the Interior Ministry of Bahrain issued an order that stripped 31 Shiite Bahraini activists of their citizenship.  Activists have spoken out against this order via twitter: Mohamad Al Jaafri tweeted:         "To take the citizenship from 31 Bahrainis, before that taking it from a UAE citizen?! Are we living...