I calculated Freedom House's score by adding their two values for political rights and civil liberties, each on a scale of 1-7, so the freest countries would have a score of 2 and the least free a score of 14.
I used Google to estimate the number of mentions of each country at the HRW.com site.
Here is a chart with the raw numbers.
Country HRW mentions Freedom House score Oman 328 11 Qatar 456 11 Bahrain 460 11 Algeria 787 11 Yemen 999 11 Morocco 1060 9 Kuwait 1130 9 UAE(+United Arab Emirates) 1200 11 Libya 1240 14 Jordan 1300 11 Lebanon 1450 8 Syria 1510 13 Tunisia 1530 12 Egypt 1930 11 Iraq 2170 11 Israel 3940 3 Saudi Arabia 4140 13 Iran 5730 12
And graphically (I normalized the freedom score to put them on the same visual scale):
In a sane world, one would expect a positive correlation between how unfree a nation is and how many mentions it receives in Human Rights Watch. However, there is practically no correlation between the two mathematically in the MENA region - in fact, there is a weak negative correlation between them (-0.13).
Perhaps a reader will take it upon himself to see if this lack or correlation extends to other parts of the world, or if it is only in the Middle East that HRW's emphasis is so skewed.