Amnesty International yesterday condemned an Algerian appeal court’s ruling against journalist Khaled Drareni who had been sentenced to two years in prison over his coverage of the Hirak protest...

Three international NGOs boycotted meetings that Saudi Arabia is holding with civil society groups ahead of the annual Group of Twenty (G20) Summit, saying the Riyadh regime is trying...

Rights group Amnesty International said peace between Israel-Palestine must include the removal of illegal Israeli settlements, The New Arab reported. In response to recent normalisation deals between Israel and...

Amnesty International has called for an independent and impartial international investigation into the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by a Saudi hit squad inside the kingdom’s consulate in...

Rights campaigners said the launch of a new contract for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon was a positive first step but that far deeper reform was needed to abolish...

Amnesty International has sent an urgent letter of action to Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to immediately and unconditionally release detained Hamas leader, Dr. Muhammad Al-Khodari, and his son,...

A group of investors is raising concerns about the treatment of migrant workers in the Gulf, warning that labour practices risk leading to abuses such as modern slavery. The...

A Tunisian blogger has been jailed for sharing  a satirical post about coronavirus written as if it was a verse from the Quran

A legal case filed by Amnesty International that requested Israeli spyware firm NSO Group be banned from exporting its cyberweapons internationally was rejected by an Israeli court. Amnesty’s lawyers alleged the...

The Moroccan parliament yesterday criticised Amnesty International and called on the rights group to apologise and provide evidence of allegations officials spied on journalists in the country using Israeli...

Amnesty International on Saturday accused Morocco of launching a “smear campaign and the false claims” against it in an effort to “discredit solid human rights research”, it said in...

Amnesty International called on the international community to take decisive action against Israel’s proposed annexation of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Saleh Hijazi, deputy director of the...

As Israel prepares to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank including illegal settlements in defiance of international law, Amnesty International has called on TripAdvisor to urgently remove...

Moroccan authorities on Friday rejected an Amnesty report saying they have spied on journalist Omar Radi using Israeli-made technology, Reuters reports. Amnesty said it checked Radi’s phone and alleged...

Amnesty yesterday called on the Egyptian authorities to protect a detained journalist from “torture and ill-treatment”. On Wednesday, authorities in Egypt arrested Nora Younis, editor-in-chief of Al-Manassa, from her workplace...

Technology developed by Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group was used by the Moroccan government to spy on journalist Omar Radi, a critic of Morocco’s human rights record, Amnesty International...

Human Rights Watch has said that French arms sales to Egypt are “shocking” and “appalling” considering the North African country’s human rights record. The statement follows the French government’s...

Amnesty International has criticised UAE authorities over the deteriorating conditions of prisoners of conscience being held in the Gulf country in light of the outbreak of the coronavirus in...

Marking two years of the detention of prominent female human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia, on Friday, Amnesty International called on King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to release them. In...

Amnesty International yesterday condemned the United States’ support for Israel’s plans to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank. The rights watchdog said the US’ “firm support to...

Syrian regime and Russian forces have carried out at least 18 documented attacks on civilian and non-military targets over the past year which amount to war crimes, the UK-based...

In a statement released on Thursday, Amnesty International called on the Jordanian authorities to provide medical care to the refugees in Rukban camp, located on the border with Jordan...

US military operations have killed at least 132 civilians in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia in 2019, a Pentagon report revealed yesterday. The report, which is conducted on an...

A Finnish board member of Amnesty International has hit out at Germany’s decision to ban the political wing of Hezbollah by suggesting that the ideology of the Shia movement...

Amnesty pointed out that with the continued rise of coronavirus infections in Egypt, the government is strengthening its control over information, rather than promoting transparency

Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to completely abolish the death penalty. This came after Riyadh announced that it plans to end the death penalty against people below...

Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi‘s fiancée Hatice Cengiz has asked the Premier League to stop the takeover of Newcastle United Football Club by the Saudi Arabian sovereign fund. Her lawyer, Rodney...

A new human rights report found a 92% increase in the usage of capital punishment in Iraq

Scores of unsuspecting migrant workers were expelled by Qatar after being informed that they would undergo examination for the new coronavirus, Amnesty International has found. Doha has denied the...

Amnesty International has called on the Lebanese government to implement measures to protect migrant domestic workers throughout the coronavirus pandemic, in a report released today. The watchdog’s report has called on...

Amnesty International has commented on the military court’s decision to release a suspect accused of killing a protestor in Beirut several months ago, however, there has been no comment...

The Syrian regime is hesitating in its action to release prisoners under an amnesty declared by President Bashar Al-Assad, raising fears of mass infections if the new coronavirus spreads...