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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.
173
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87
Currently held
detained · sentenced · on trial
57
In exile or under
transnational repression
11
In memoriam
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HM-EG-2026-041
Detained
Nashwa Al-Deeb
Opposition candidate who withdrew from Egypt's November 2025 parliamentary elections citing electoral fraud, vote-buying, and systematic irregularities in the Munira and Giza…
Open case file
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-2020-002
Disappeared
Ahmed Amasha
Ahmed Amasha is a veterinarian, trade unionist, and co-founder of the League for Families of the Disappeared. He has been arrested twice,…
Day 2,196 · since 2020-06-01
HM-TN-2023-001
Released
Chadha Haj Mbarek
Chadha Haj Mbarek was arrested on 20 July 2023 and sentenced to five years in prison under Tunisia's national security laws. She…
Arrested 2023
HM-BH-2011-003
Sentenced
Hassan Mushaima
Hassan Mushaima is a leading Bahraini opposition figure sentenced to life in prison after the 2011 mass protests. Now held in prolonged…
Medical urgency
Day 5,635 · since 2011-01-01
HM-TN-2026-003
Released
Imen Ouardani
Imen Ouardani, a Tunisian defender whose case is under editorial review. Full details are being verified and will be published once documentation…
Open case file
HM-BH-2025-002
Sentenced
Ebrahim Sharif
Ebrahim Sharif is a senior member of Bahrain's National Democratic Action Society. Since 2011 he has been arrested at least ten times…
Day 206 · since 2025-11-12
HM-TN-2025-003
Detained
Chaima Issa)
Chaïma Issa was sentenced to twenty years in prison by a Tunisian Court of Appeal on charges of conspiracy against state security…
Hunger strike
Day 521 · since 2025-01-01