Egypt executed at least 57 people in October and November, Amnesty International has said, almost double the number of executions carried out in the whole of 2019. Amnesty referred...

Swedish-Iranian scientist Ahmadreza Djalali, sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges, may face imminent execution, rights groups said on Tuesday. "On 1 December, a judge said Ahmadreza was...

Amnesty International yesterday renewed its call on Egyptian authorities to "immediately" release prominent human rights defenders detained since last week. This came following the announcement of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal...

Amnesty International called on Thursday for the G20 leaders to put pressure on the Saudi Arabian authorities to release "brave activists" who are imprisoned in the Kingdom. "Instead of...

Amnesty International yesterday called on the Tunisian authorities to stop using "outdated" laws to prosecute 40 social media activists, considering it a threat to freedom of expression. The organisation...

Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian government to investigate alleged beatings and racial slurs directed at Sudanese protesters. Last week Sudanese migrants protested against the killing of 12-year-old...

Saudi Arabia is to host its first Formula One grand prix next year with a street race set to take place in Jeddah. According to F1 sources the event...

Qatar announced on Tuesday that it is willing to cooperate fully with Amnesty International to investigate violations against domestic workers revealed in a report issued by the rights watchdog....

Amnesty International on Saturday urged Lebanese authorities to investigate and hold accountable officers involved in the suppression of protesters during October 2019 demonstrations, reports Anadolu Agency.  "The authorities have...

Amnesty International has expressed its concerns on Wednesday over what it called "the continuous crackdown on press freedom" in Egypt, due to at least five journalists being arrested since...

Amnesty International has once again called Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to secure the release of former Hamas official Dr Muhammad Al-Khodari from prison. In a series of tweets in Arabic, Amnesty called...

Amnesty International yesterday called on the Iraqi government to ensure justice is served for hundreds of protesters who have been killed or forcibly disappeared during the country's anti-government protests...

According to a report by Amnesty International, the militia of General Khalifa Haftar has forcibly expelled more than 5,000 refugees in 2020. This was detailed in a lengthy report...

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...