Announcing a blog about rights in the Middle East

As it has become clearer, unfortunately, that there are more stories regarding violated rights and liberties in the Middle East than AELME.org has members to keep the database of profiles updated, I have decided to start posting related news stories on the front page of this website. I do this for a number of reasons: 1) the sheer amount of news coming out of the region is overwhelming, and it would be great to have a central resource that people could check; 2) some items are very much related to the concept of political, social, and economic rights in the Middle East, but cannot necessarily be represented as individuals; 3) in the hope that when new blog posts do relate to individual prisoners, that these posts might encourage visitors to take it upon themselves to contribute a profile to the database.