A series of deliberate attacks on humanitarian convoys, displaced civilians, and medical facilities in Sudan’s North and South Kordofan states represent flagrant violations of international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes under international legal standards.

Amman, Jordan – February 9, 2026 — Women Journalists Without Chains has warned that recent remarks by Jordan’s Interior Minister acknowledging severe prison overcrowding highlight the urgent need for comprehensive reform of detention policies.

Sana’a, Yemen — Houthi authorities continue to hold prominent Yemeni human rights lawyer Abdulmajid Sabra in enforced disappearance, more than four months after his abduction from his office in the capital on September 25, 2025,

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,