The whereabouts of at least 40 Kurds remain unknown A collage by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network showing some of the arrested Kurdish activists. Global Voices

Saudi’s grim human rights record raises concern on data safety A screenshot from a Google Workplace video showing the inside of a Google data centre.

Dissidents argue the agreement is the regime’s way of retaliating A child plays near his house, destroyed by Syrian jets, in the city of Daraa. Photo

Israel’s rapid vaccine rollout leaves out Palestinian population Screenshot from PBS report showing an Israeli citizen receiving COVID-19 vaccination as nearly 19 percent of Israelis

War may plummet the region into a disaster A man works in agriculture in al-Qadarif, Sudan, that state in which conflict at the Sudan-Ethiopia border

Nekkaz is held in an isolated prison, 670 km from Algeirs Image showing Rachid Nekkaz in one of the protests. Permission to use by Mouvement