Beirut, January 31, 2026 – Lebanese journalist and Al-Manar TV presenter Ali Nour al-Din was killed on Monday, January 26, when an Israeli airstrike targeted a civilian vehicle on the outskirts of the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.

Geneva — Women Journalists Without Chains has released its 2025 annual report, “The Architecture of Repression: From Atrocities to Authoritarian Legality,” presenting a comprehensive assessment of the deteriorating human rights situation across the Middle East and North Africa.

An alarming collapse in press and media freedoms is unfolding in Yemen, where journalism has entered one of the most lethal and repressive periods in its modern history,

Zarqa, Jordan — On Friday, economic journalist Faisal Al-Tamimi was assaulted outside his home in Zarqa while returning with his family.

Grave concern persists over the continued international silence in the face of documented crimes of torture and other serious violations committed within detention facilities in eastern Libya.

One thousand days of war in Sudan have left a nation in ruins. Families uprooted, communities starved, and basic systems of life destroyed are not the incidental costs of conflict—they are the direct result of deliberate military campaigns and external interference.

Egypt’s prison system is witnessing an escalating human rights emergency as dozens of students remain behind bars on politically related charges, subjected to sustained patterns of abuse that threaten their physical health, psychological stability, and educational futures.

What is unfolding in Gaza is no longer merely the humanitarian fallout of war. It is the systematic construction of a humanitarian void — a man-made catastrophe driven by Israeli policy and sustained through overlapping political, military,

Women Journalists Without Chains issues its strongest condemnation of the Iranian authorities’ escalating campaign of repression against peaceful demonstrators and civil society actors,

The intensifying campaign of intimidation and violence waged by Israeli occupation forces against journalists in Lebanese territory has been strongly condemned, described as a systematic assault on the free flow of information and a grave breach of international humanitarian law.

Human rights lawyer Abdulmajid Sabra is facing a life-threatening situation after being held in solitary confinement for nearly 100 days by the Houthi-controlled Security and Intelligence Service, according to Women Journalists Without Chains.

Women Journalists Without Chains said it has received verified information indicating that security checkpoints affiliated with the Southern Transitional Council (STC) closed the main road linking Taiz and Lahj on Saturday, December 27, 2025, preventing hundreds of civilians from entering the city of Aden in what it described as an arbitrary and dangerous measure.