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Defenders.
An open record of human rights defenders across the Middle East and North Africa. Every entry is a case file — dated, sourced, and kept current.
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57
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HM-EG-2024-001
Detained
Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi
A dual Egyptian-Turkish poet arrested at the Lebanon-Syria border, forcibly extradited to the UAE, and held incommunicado since January 2025 after publishing…
Day 525 · since 2024-12-28
HM-EG-2026-002
On trial
Aya Kamal El-Din Hussein
Aya Kamal El-Din Hussein is a political activist and fashion designer first arrested at seventeen. She has been held in pre-trial detention…
Open case file
HM-DZ-2025-002
Sentenced
Mohamed Tadjadit
Known as the "poet of the Hirak," Mohamed Tadjadit has been arrested six times since 2019. In January 2025, aged 32, he…
Day 506 · since 2025-01-16