A report issued by Amnesty International has revealed that US raids in Somalia have led to the deaths of two civilians and the injuries of three others in February....

Amnesty International has revealed that 220 civil society organisations have announced a boycott of the G20 meeting due to be hosted by Saudi Arabia in November. The human rights...

The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry and diseased, is in urgent need for peace, security, and...

Amnesty International has criticised Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum for justifying the abduction and enforced disappearance of his own daughter, Sheikha Latifa, claiming it was a “private family...

Eight men were executed yesterday in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020. The defendants were...

Amnesty International has released a report accusing the UAE of practising arbitrary detention campaigns, torture and enforced disappearance against citizens and residents while imposing restrictions on freedom of expression....

Saudi Arabia has been found to be using a secret court established for the purpose of judging counter-terrorism cases to imprison and detain critics and dissidents within the country....

A new Qatari law criminalising the publishing of “false or biased” statements could “significantly restrict freedom of expression”, rights group Amnesty International said on Monday, reports Reuters. The addition...

Amnesty International has urged Israeli authorities to prevent notorious tech company NSO Group from exporting spyware products to human rights abusers, ahead of a court case starting tomorrow. A...

Despite guarantees from Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to reduce the number of state killings...

Three of the most prominent international human rights organisations decided on Monday to boycott a series of meetings for civil society organisations, scheduled to take place in the Saudi...

Israel has a long record of camouflaging the truth where Palestine is concerned. Integral to this, in recent years, has been the growing war against human rights groups documenting...

Israeli occupation authorities are preventing an Amnesty International staff member from accompanying his mother to chemotherapy treatment, according to the global human rights organisation. Laith Abu Zeyad, Amnesty International’s...

The UK-based human rights group Amnesty International today reported that at least 304 people have been killed in Iran as a result of the government’s violent crackdown against protesters...

Amnesty International yesterday demanded an investigation into what it described as “the role of the European arms companies in violating international humanitarian law in Yemen.” Referring to its recent...

Iranian authorities confirmed for the first time on Tuesday that security forces had shot dead demonstrators during what rights groups have said was the deadliest anti-government unrest since the...

Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi has compared Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to the Shah, the monarch deposed in a 1979 revolution, following the government’s crackdown on protests this...

Egypt is misusing counter-terror legislation to prosecute critics of the regime, according to a 60-page report released by Amnesty International. “In Egypt today the Supreme State Security Prosecution ...

At least 143 people in Iran have been killed since protests broke out earlier this month over the government’s decision to raise fuel prices, Amnesty International said yesterday, as...

Thousands of supporters of Iran’s clerical establishment rallied in Tehran on Monday, accusing the United States and Israel of instigating the most violent anti-government protests in at least a...

Accusations of enforced disappearances are like a “broken record”, Egyptian Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Omar Marwan, said yesterday. Speaking at a press conference, Marwan stressed that there was “no evidence”...

Amnesty International stressed yesterday that Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem “breaches international law and amounts to war crimes.” On its official website, Amnesty International...

Leaked documents accuse the British government and the army of covering up the killing of children and the torture of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a Panorama/Sunday...

Amnesty International has called on Iraqi authorities to rein in security forces, amid anti-government protests that left scores dead. On Saturday, at least seven protesters were killed as security...

A Palestinian employee of Amnesty International has been handed a travel ban by Israel as he was trying to enter Jordan to attend a relative’s funeral. Israeli occupation authorities...

Turkey is forcibly sending Syrian refugees to an area of Syria near the border where it aims to set up a “safe zone” even though the conflict there has...

Amnesty to Iraq: stop targeting activists

A number of human rights defenders and activists in Morocco have been found to have been targeted by surveillance technology and spyware developed by an Israeli company, according to...

Egyptian actor, Amr Waked, who lives abroad accused Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, yesterday, of “committing five crimes that incurred heavy losses.” “Sisi has wasted Egypt’s sovereignty after ceding...

An international rights group has accused South Sudanese authorities of allowing “impunity to flourish over serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity” committed since the brutal...

Iraqi security forces opened fire on thousands of demonstrators who defied a curfew in Baghdad on Thursday and exchanged fire with gunmen in a southern city, killing two people...

Amnesty International has slammed the “legally-sanctioned” torture of a Palestinian prisoner at the hands of Israeli agents as “utterly outrageous”. Samir Arbeed was arrested by Israeli occupation forces last...