Amnesty International yesterday renewed its call for “international justice” for Palestinian victims of Israeli occupation forces after a woman was shot and killed at a checkpoint. In an incident...

“For five months I had to live with very little food and no salary. My family was really affected. Tears come to my eyes when I remember where we...

Amnesty International on Monday warned the US against taking military action in response to the attack on Saudi oil facilities which it said only exacerbate further instability and suffering...

Emirati activist Ahmed Mansour has been on hunger strike for three weeks, Amnesty International said, in protest against “his prison conditions and his unfair trial”. Mansour was sentenced and...

Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to reveal the whereabouts of a Qatari father and son who allegedly disappeared during a visit to the kingdom last month, the...

International human rights organisation Amnesty International has slammed the treatment of Arab-Israeli Knesset Members (MKs), accusing the Israeli parliament of routinely discriminating against its Palestinian representatives. Released today, the...

The UN has postponed a conference on torture that was set to take place in Cairo at the beginning of September after a wave of criticism from human rights...

The United Nations is holding a regional conference on torture in Egypt at the same time human rights organisations are criticising the country for torturing people to death in...

Detainees are held in overcrowded cells full of insects with a temperature of more than 40C in the summer, says Amnesty

Bahrain executed on Saturday three men convicted in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam, the...

Amnesty International is calling on Saudi Arabia to drop plans to seek the execution of cleric Salman Al-Ouda and release him without condition. In a press release issued yesterday,...

The global human rights organisation pulled no punches in condemning the home demolitions

Amnesty International said on Wednesday that the Kuwaiti authorities have arbitrarily arrested more than a dozen “stateless” people, known as Bidoun, during the past week for demanding equal rights....

Amnesty International is urging TripAdvisor employees “to use their power to demand that their company stops profiting from war crimes by listing tourist attractions and properties in illegal Israeli...

Amnesty International has urged the international community to end its silence towards the Egyptian authorities’ crushing of opposition as well as violations of human rights. The organisation explained that...

The United Nations said on Thursday it had confirmed the killing of 17 people and the burning of more than 100 houses in Deleij village in the Darfur region...

Migrant domestic workers are seen as less than human in Lebanon, the director of a new film that exposes widespread abuse of such women said ahead of a screening...

Amnesty International has called on the US-based company, Trip Advisor, to stop promoting tourist sites in illegal Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian lands. In a statement published on...

Israel’s refusal to grant Palestinian refugees the right to return has fuelled seven decades of suffering, international rights group Amnesty International said in a statement released today. Marking Nakba...

Amnesty International called on Yemen’s Houthi movement, which controls the capital Sanaa, to free 10 journalists held for nearly four years on what the rights group described as trumped-up...

Iranian authorities secretly executed two 17-year-old boys convicted of multiple rape charges in an unfair trial, according to a statement from Amnesty International. The two cousins, Mehdi Sohrabifar and...

Thousands of people prayed on Friday outside the defence ministry in Khartoum, site of a massive anti-government sit-in that has continued unabated even after the military removed President Omar...

The US-led international coalition killed more than 1,600 civilians during its assault on the Syrian city of Raqqa against Daesh militants, an 18 month investigation by Amnesty International and...

A court in Bahrain has convicted 139 people of terrorism offences during a mass trial, revoking the citizenship of all but one, according to an Amnesty International press release....

Saudi Arabia systematically uses the death penalty to crush opposition figures, Amnesty International has said, noting that the country’s Public Prosecution is planning to execute more activists. Saudi’s Public...

Amnesty International reported that the number of executions has decreased by about a third in 2018, reaching its lowest levels in more than ten years. Secretary-General Kumi Naidoo said:...

Saudi Arabia has arrested eight people, including two dual US-Saudi citizens, in an apparent crackdown on supporters of women activists whose trial has drawn Western condemnation, rights groups said...

The whereabouts of 4,247 residents of Raqqa is still unknown according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), who called on the international community to make discovering their...

Amnesty International said that the forces of Bashar Al-Assad regime continue the deliberate targeting of health centres, furnaces and neighbourhoods in Idlib, northern Syria, with the support of Russia,...

Amnesty International criticised the European Union on Wednesday for a “shameful” abdication of its humanitarian responsibilities after the bloc agreed to withdraw ships patrolling the Mediterranean for migrants attempting...

In their desperate attempt to divert attention from the brutal reality of its military occupation, Israel and its supporters have successfully employed a number of tactics. None, however, have...

Amnesty International has urged the Palestinian Authority to “reverse” an “appalling deterioration of human rights”, in a statement issued yesterday. The global rights group made the call as a...