Family and friends mourn during the funerals of those killed by Israeli occupation forces

Israel’s Supreme Court has approved a war crime, Amnesty International stated yesterday, responding to the latest decision that paves the way for Israeli authorities to demolish the Palestinian village...

Amnesty International yesterday has protested against past and current arms deals signed between Israel and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte who is currently visiting the country. Activists from the rights...

Amnesty International has called for solidarity with female Saudi activists detained by the authorities for over three months without charges or trial. The organisation asked activists around the world...

Amnesty International has called for Houthis in Yemen to immediately release a human rights activist abducted by two militants. On its website, the London-based rights group wrote: “Kamal Al-Shawish,...

Turkey released Taner Kilic, the chair of Amnesty International Turkey, yesterday after detaining him for over 14 months. Kilic’s trial will resume on 7 November. “I think the campaign...

Amnesty International has condemned the state of “impunity” enjoyed by the Egyptian security forces five years after the violent dispersalof the sit-in organised in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahdha Squares...

Amnesty International has launched an online petition to reveal the fate of 75,000 people who were forcibly disappeared during the war in Syria. The Syrian government is subjecting tens...

UK Ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce took over the Security Council presidency for August on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. At a news conference at UN headquarters, Pierce discussed the British presidency...

An employee of global human rights group Amnesty International was targeted with Israeli-made surveillance software, the organisation revealed today. According to AP’s report, the disclosure adds “to a growing...

An Egyptian court said on Saturday it would transfer the cases of 75 people convicted of security-related offences, including senior Muslim Brotherhood figures, toEgypt’s top religious authority to decide whether...

The global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has condemned the passing of a controversial law by the Israeli parliament that recognizes the country as a Jewish state and risks...

The Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi armed group in Yemen are hampering the delivery of aid to Yemen, a new briefing released by Amnesty International reveals today. Amnesty International...

Amnesty International called on Wednesday for the authorities in Bahrain to release the Shia opposition leader Ali Salman immediately, ThenewKhalij.news has reported. Amnesty’s call came just one day before...

Eighteen human rights groups and civil liberty organisations, including Amnesty International, have warned the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen about the arbitrary detention of their Yemeni colleagues. The warning came...

The blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt has torn the social fabric in the Gulf Arab states, hurt families and individuals and cast a dark...

The Italian foreign ministry has called on Israeli occupation authorities not to demolish a Bedouin village and an Italian-funded school in eastern Jerusalem, expressing concern that such a step...

The US-led coalition fighting Daesh in Syria may have committed war crimes, a report by Amnesty International has found. According to the rights group, there was “a strong prima...

The Egyptian government has been accused of interfering in labour union elections taking place this month by excluding leaders of independent labour organisations from the electoral race. Several activists,...

Saudi Arabia arrested prominent rights campaigner Mohammed Al-Bajadi, Amnesty International said today, as part of a crackdown mostly targeting advocates of women’s rights in the conservative Kingdom. The government...

Algeria has sentenced a blogger to ten years in jail after finding him guilty of providing intelligence to “agents of a foreign power,” his lawyer said. The criminal court...

Saudi Arabia has released veteran women’s rights activist Aisha Al-Manea following her arrest last week with several other activists in a crackdown just weeks before a ban on women...

Saudi Arabia has arrested at least three more women’s rights activists in a widening crackdown just weeks before a ban on women driving is set to end, international rights...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have condemned the arrests of Saudi activists defending women’s rights in the kingdom. The two organizations called on the Saudi authorities to release...

Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been fleeing Hudaydah as fighting intensifies on frontlines near the Houthi-held western province, Amnesty International said on Thursday, warning that “the worst is...

At least 2,600 migrants and refugees have been transferred to Libyan detention centres in the past two months alone, Amnesty International revealed today. The human rights group estimates that...

An Egyptian court has acquitted two police officers of charges of torturing and murdering a prominent lawyer in 2015. Karim Hamdi was beaten to death at a Cairo police...

Egyptian police on Friday detained an activist after she posted a video on social media criticising the government for failing to protect women against sexual harassment and over worsening...

Amnesty International has slammed a decision by Israeli authorities to expel Human Rights Watch official Omar Shakir, in a statement released yesterday. “We stand in complete solidarity with Omar...

Amnesty International has issued a new report highlighting the terrible abuses committed against detainees held in solitary confinement in Egyptian prisons. The report titled “Crushing humanity: The abuse of...

Amnesty International has renewed its call for an arms embargo to be imposed on Israel after soldiers responded violently to unarmed protesters on the Gaza border. Some 45 Palestinians...

On Sunday, Cairo denounced UNESCO’s intention to grant Mahmoud Abou Zeid, a photojournalist and prisoner in Egypt known as Shawkan, the Freedom of Press Prize, a denunciation that the...