Defenders.

Hassan Mushaima is a leading Bahraini opposition figure sentenced to life in prison after the 2011 mass protests. Now held in prolonged…

Ayman Sanduka is a mathematics professor and political activist in Jordan. He was arrested in December 2023 over a Facebook post criticizing…

Former communications director at the Algerian Red Crescent who reported mismanagement of humanitarian aid in 2023. Detained and prosecuted after the organization's…

Ayachi Hammemi is a lawyer who defended 57 judges dismissed by presidential decree in 2022. Arrested in December 2025 while representing defendants…

Ali Mammeri is a public sector employee and trade union president who founded the Independent National Union of Employees in the Culture…

Al-Hussein Al-Bashir Ibrahim is a Sahrawi human rights monitor who has endured years of racialized abuse, medical neglect, and repeated punitive transfers…

Aya Kamal El-Din Hussein is a political activist and fashion designer first arrested at seventeen. She has been held in pre-trial detention…

Ikbel Khaled, a Tunisian municipal official, was arrested in May 2024 for signing a partnership agreement between the Municipality of Sousse and…

Hussain Moosa is detained in Bahrain. Further biographical and case details are under editorial research.

Chemistry teacher and political activist who lost his left eye after security forces beat him for refusing a public strip search in…

Nezha Majdi is a professor in Morocco who protested alongside contract teachers in April 2021. She reported sexual assault and violent treatment…

Omar Al-Zayood, publisher of the independent Jordanian news outlet Al-Hashmiyah, was arrested in March 2025 after former Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh filed…