Bahrain: Urgent investigation required into al-Mousawi’s death in custody amid torture concerns

The death of Bahraini citizen Sayed Mohammad al-Mousawi while in custody in Bahrain, amid serious indications of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, is extremely concerning.

The incident requires the prompt initiation of an urgent, independent, impartial, and effective investigation to establish the truth, determine responsibility, and hold those involved accountable. It also revives concerns about recurring serious violations in Bahrain's places of detention, particularly the absence of effective safeguards to protect detainees and ensure their physical and psychological integrity.

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Bearing deep bruising and extensive blood clots across his back, eyes, and legs, Bahraini authorities returned the body of citizen Sayed Mohammed Al-Mousawi to his family after nearly a week in detention over his alleged support for Iran in the ongoing war.

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Dangerous precedent: Israel carries out mass displacement in southern Lebanon, threatens towns hosting the displaced

The Israeli army is committing a complex crime and setting a dangerous precedent by enforcing illegal displacement policies in Lebanon. This involves forcing civilians to leave their homes and threatening residents of other areas with bombing or destruction of their towns if they host displaced people.

The Israeli unlawful threat, directly communicated to local officials in several villages in southern Lebanon to bomb and destroy their towns unless a specific sect of displaced persons was forced to leave, demonstrates a dangerous pattern of using unlawful destruction and death threats against civilians and their homes. It coerces civilian communities into acts against other civilians, going beyond standard military warnings to manipulating social behaviour under duress, inflaming local tensions, threatening civil peace, and creating hotspots of internal conflict.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/a/7018

Hundreds killed, injured in one day: Massive Israeli strikes in Lebanon warrant investigation for war crimes and crimes against humanity

The large-scale Israeli attack on Lebanon, which caused heavy civilian casualties and extensive damage to civilian objects, warrants investigation for war crimes and crimes against humanity, given their apparently indiscriminate or disproportionate nature and indications of a systematic attack on the civilian population.

Preliminary field data on Israel’s intensive airstrikes on Beirut and other areas on Wednesday, 8 April, indicate that more than 1,300 people were killed or injured, with dozens still trapped or missing under the rubble. The attacks reflect a pattern of using highly destructive, indiscriminate force in densely populated civilian areas, in violation of international humanitarian law.

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In a single day, the Israeli military killed two journalists in #Lebanon and another in #Gaza in relentless attacks. Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least one journalist every three days.

“Another genocide behind walls”: New report documents testimonies of rape and sexual violence in Israeli prisons

Sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli prisons and detention centres constitutes a de facto state policy, used as a tool of subjugation and destruction, with a sharp escalation and the removal of prior restraints since 7 October 2023, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a report.

The new report, titled “Another genocide behind walls”, documents widespread patterns of sexual violence, including rape, against detainees from the Gaza Strip, describing it as a tool of destruction aimed at breaking individual and collective will and inflicting severe physical and psychological harm. The report cites direct sexual assault, assault with objects, and torture targeting the genitals, as well as organised practices such as filming and the presence of multiple security personnel during assaults, which reinforces evidence of the institutional and systematic nature of these crimes.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/a/7022
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⚠️Since October 2023, the Israeli army has arrested hundreds of women and girls from Gaza, torturing some of them for months. But testimonies collected by Euro-Med Monitor from Palestinian women who were later released revealed a more horrifying picture: *dozens were subjected to sexual violence, including rape.*

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Establishing Israeli military sites near Yellow Line entrenches de facto annexation, threatens civilians in Gaza

The Israeli army’s establishment of permanent, fortified military sites in the Gaza Strip near the Yellow Line is an extremely dangerous escalation. The Israeli-imposed Yellow Line isolates about 55 per cent of the Gaza Strip and places it under direct Israeli control.

This forms part of a systematic policy to impose a permanent fait accompli, paving the way for the de facto annexation of large parts of the occupied Palestinian territory, destroying what remains of its territorial integrity, and entrenching Israel’s unlawful presence.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/a/7026

‼️ Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Eyal Zamir, has allowed members of Unit 100, who had been accused of abusing a Palestinian detainee from Gaza at Sde Teiman military facility, to resume reserve duty after charges against them were dropped.

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It's been over six months since the ceasefire in Gaza went into effect. But a ceasefire that still leaves more than 100 people killed every month is not a real ceasefire; it's a continuation of genocide carried out in a less visible form.

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Bahrain: Royal directives escalate repression, pave way to arbitrary deprivation of nationality

The directives issued by the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, instructing executive authorities to take comprehensive and decisive measures, including the potential withdrawal of citizenship, signal a dangerous shift toward subjecting the right to nationality to vague political and security considerations.

These directives open the door to the arbitrary or punitive use of such measures, transforming citizenship from a fundamental legal bond into a tool of punishment and exclusion, with the potential to strip individuals of their legal status, deprive them of a wide range of fundamental rights, and expose them to the risk of statelessness.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/a/7030

Citizenship is not a tool for punishment!
New directives in #Bahrain reopen the door to stripping nationality under vague justifications, raising fears of targeting activists and political opponents.

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Kuwait: Authorities must release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin immediately, cease criminalising journalism

The continued detention of Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin since 2 March, while visiting family in Kuwait, constitutes a serious violation of freedom of expression and press freedom. It reflects a troubling escalation in the use of national security laws and vague penal provisions to punish reporting on public affairs, especially given the lack of transparency about his legal status and the circumstances of his detention.

Shihab-Eldin’s detention is likely a direct response to his journalistic work and his publication of content on military and security developments of clear public interest, including material already in the public domain, such as a video clip showing the crash of a US F-15E fighter jet near a military base in Kuwait.

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In #Sudan, millions of civilians are now forced to rely on tree leaves and animal fodder to survive, amid an unprecedented humanitarian collapse and the ongoing armed conflict

From Palestinian territory to Southern Lebanon: Systematic looting policy rife within Israeli Army, left unpunished

Testimonies recorded by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor regarding Israeli forces looting civilian property in southern Lebanon are deeply concerning and indicate a clear pattern of theft during Israeli military operations.

These violations are not limited to killing civilians, destroying homes, and forcibly displacing residents. After control over residential areas is established, they reportedly extend to raiding houses, rummaging through belongings, and looting residents’ money and personal effects, in serious violation of international humanitarian law and potentially amounting to war crimes under international criminal law.

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Sudan: Millions of civilians on the brink of famine amid starvation, siege, and international inaction

An unprecedented humanitarian collapse is imminent across large parts of Sudan amid the ongoing armed conflict, which is accompanied by deliberate deprivation of food, the destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for survival, and systematic restrictions on the flow of humanitarian aid. This catastrophe places millions of civilians at risk of death by starvation, amid continued international failure to halt the conflict and ensure safe humanitarian access.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is following with concern the deterioration in food security and the humanitarian situation in Sudan as the armed conflict enters its fourth year. Updated figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) for Q4 2026 indicate that 21.2 million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, including 6.3 million experiencing “emergency” levels of hunger, Phase 4, reflecting severe food deprivation requiring urgent intervention.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/a/7036

⚠️ In every area under Israeli army control, the same pattern is repeated:

Homes are raided,
cash is looted,
and gold jewellery disappears.

From Gaza to the West Bank, and most recently in southern Lebanon, looting is expanding without accountability.

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Syria: Urgent investigation needed into man’s custodial death in Deir ez-Zor

The death of the young man, Ahmed Al-Ayada Al-Dayeh, in a detention centre operated by the Internal Security in Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria is deeply concerning.

Available information indicates that he may have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment during his detention, making his death a suspected custodial death that requires an urgent, independent, impartial, transparent, and effective investigation. Such an investigation must establish the circumstances of his death, identify all those responsible or negligent, make its findings public, and ensure accountability through fair judicial proceedings.

Press release: https://euromedmonitor.org/a/7038