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At a time when the Israeli occupation authorities are preparing to deport French-Palestinian Jerusalemite human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri, local and international human rights organisations have described the move...

UN member states should establish an "international, independent" entity to track and identify those missing and forcibly disappeared since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, Human Rights...

Amnesty International has requested the International Criminal Court open an investigation into the 3-day assault which left 49 Palestinians dead

Sanaa Seif will today begin a sit-in at Whitehall outside the Foreign Office to try and help secure the release of her brother who is in prison in Egypt....

Iranian security forces were ordered to "severely" and "mercilessly" crack down on protests against the government as they spread throughout the country last month, leaked documents cited by the...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have gathered as a delegation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) to voice their support...

A year since the Egyptian government's National Human Rights Strategy was launched, Amnesty International has said it paints a deeply misleading picture of the human rights situation in the...

Egyptian authorities yesterday ordered the release of 46 pretrial detainees, including lawyer and leftist political activist Haitham Mohamadin. Member of the Presidential Pardon Committee, Tariq Al-Awadi, announced the release...

The Israeli occupation authorities are set to impose new rules next week on Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, and foreign citizens who wish to visit the territory;...

An Egyptian military court has referred five defendants accused in connection with the 2016 explosion in Giza to the country's top religious authority for consideration of the death penalty,...

A storm seems to be hitting Amnesty International (AI). The international non-governmental organisation has been subject to strong criticisms since the release of its report on 4 August 2022 about the...

Demonstrators gathered outside the British embassy in Berlin yesterday to protest Egypt's attempts to greenwash crimes with the upcoming COP27 conference. Today in Berlin people gathered outside the British...

Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of young Palestinian, Ahmad Manasra, who is currently suffering from severe mental health problems. The 21-year-old has been held in an...

A new survey conducted by Amnesty International has revealed that most Israelis fear the sight of the Palestine flag, Quds Press has reported. According to Amnesty's Programme Director, Yariv...

Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian authorities to abolish "unfair" sentences issued on Tuesday against 163 people, including ten people who were handed the death penalty, saying the...

South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor called on the international community to take action to put an end to the ongoing grievances the Palestinians are experiencing and to hold...

At least 28,670 people were on death row around the world at the end of 2021, Amnesty International said in a report released yesterday, with Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia...

Amnesty International has called on Israel to immediately release a human rights defender held under Tel Aviv's administrative detention policy for another three months, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The...

Amnesty International yesterday condemned an Egyptian court that sentenced a former presidential candidate to 15 years in prison. On Sunday, an emergency court handed Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, 70, a 15-year jail...

Activists and rights organisations are sceptical about the Egyptian government's pledge to allow protesters to demonstrate in a "facility adjacent to the conference centre" at the upcoming COP27. Egypt...

Egyptian courts sentenced 356 people to death in 2021, the highest number of death sentences worldwide, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Death Penalty 2021: Facts and...

Amnesty International said there were at least 1,000 people on death row in Algeria by the end of 2021, noting that the state does not apply the death penalty...

The mother of a renowned Egyptian-British activist, Laila Soueif, says she fears she may not see her son alive again as he approaches the end of the sixth week...

The Libyan Government of National Unity yesterday accused Amnesty International of "politicising work and following the path of systematic prejudice against the interests of the Libyan state." This came...

Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to lift its draconian travel bans targeting activists and their families and has launched a campaign highlighting the plight of 30 activists...

Around 600 Palestinians are currently being held by Israel under administrative detention orders, according to the Israeli human rights group HaMoked. The number is the highest since 2016 when...

Cuts in international aid to north-west Syria from the UK and other western nations are causing a healthcare crisis and leading to millions in the region being impacted by...

More than 40,000 Syrian children are out of education as a direct result of British aid cuts, says a leading charity Syria Relief and its parent charity, Action For...

Amnesty International and a political party in Algeria have called for an investigation into the death of a political activist while he was on remand. A few days ago,...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed the release of Egyptian journalists Mohamed Salah and Abdo Fayad but called on the Egyptian authorities to release 23 other reporters still in prison....

Amnesty International has called on French President Emmanuel Macron to make the protection of human rights a priority for his second term in office after he beat his far-right rival...

The Egyptian government has released nine Coptic Christians who were arrested after a protest demanding that a church be rebuilt in Minya governorate. The nine protesters were interrogated whilst...