Advocacy / Lebanon
Lebanon’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council: civil society raises alarm on torture, refoulement, and transnational repression.
During Lebanon’s Universal Periodic Review on 19 January 2026, MENA Rights Group submitted an alternative report documenting torture, refoulement, and transnational repression. On the same day, MENA Rights Group and partners held a side event in Geneva to discuss these findings. The issues raised were reflected in several recommendations made to Lebanon by UN Member States.
Lebanon: Year Since Poet Unlawfully Extradited to UAE
Al-Qaradawi Arbitrarily Detained in Near-Incommunicado Conditions
One year since the arrest of Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi: a year of complicity, enforced disappearance, and diplomatic failure
On the first anniversary of his arrest, 17 human rights organisations condemn the arrest and extradition of Egyptian–Turkish poet and dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi, describing it as an unlawful act of transnational repression.
UN event highlights human rights abuses in MENA region under the guise of counter-terrorism
On the sidelines of the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, MENA Rights Group co-organised a side event bringing together civil society actors and the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism to discuss concerning trends of counter-terrorism abuse and its negative impact on human rights across the MENA region.
Joint Letter: Protect blast investigation from interference, obstruction
MENA Rights Group, alongside 17 international and national human rights organizations and the families of the victims of the August 2020 port blast, is calling on the Prime Minister and the Justice Minister to take all necessary steps to ensure that the investigation into the blast proceeds without any interference or obstruction.
In solidarity with Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated campaign
MENA Rights Group joins 59 partners in solidarity with Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby.
Open letter to Royal Jet: do not enable the extradition of Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi
MENA Rights Group sent a letter to Royal Jet expressing concern regarding the company's possible involvement in the unlawful extradition of Turkish-Egyptian dissident Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi.
Call for the immediate release of poet Abdel Rahman Youssef
MENA Rights Group joins 500+ signatories in urging Lebanese authorities to immediately release poet Abdel Rahman Youssef Al-Qaradawi and to not extradite him to Egypt, where he risks human rights abuses.
Torture to death: Military Justice fails to deliver
MENA Rights Group joins local and international NGOs in urging Lebanese judicial authorities to hold accountable the State Security officers who tortured Syrian refugee Bashar Abdel Saud to death.