On Sunday, Cairo denounced UNESCO’s intention to grant Mahmoud Shukan, a photojournalist and prisoner in Egypt, the Freedom of Press Prize, a denunciation that the photojournalist’s lawyer described as...

Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia have topped the list of countries carrying out the death penalty in the Middle East and North Africa in 2017, Amnesty International said in...

Tunisia has failed to take steps to abolish its law on the death penalty, Amnesty International said in its latest report. Since the early 1990s, no death sentences have...

Amnesty International has accused the Mauritanian authorities of the arbitrary detention and torture of anti-slavery activists. In a report issued on Wednesday entitled “A sword hanging over our heads’:...

Human rights groups accused Israeli authorities of “discriminatory policies”, as the sentencing of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi yesterday prompted widespread condemnation. As part of a plea bargain, 17-year-old Tamimi,...

An Israeli military court has jailed a Palestinian activist and Amnesty ‘prisoner of conscience’ for six months, sparking widespread condemnation. On Monday, Ofer Military Court sentenced Munther Amira, head...

More than a dozen human rights groups are calling on US President Donald Trump to come clean over “secret” changes made to a controversial assassination policy. The joint statement...

A British National, Christian Wilke, has been detained without charge for almost six months in the UAE. Wilke, a dual British and German national, had been working as an...

Amnesty International published a report which confirms the Egyptian authorities’ use of banned cluster bombs during its recent raids on northern Sinai. “On 21 February, the Egyptian military released...

The Algerian government has blasted the “lack of objectivity” from Amnesty International (AI) in its latest human rights’ report and noted its “astonishment” and regret at the “unfounded allegations”...

Israeli occupation authorities yesterday extended the detention without trial or charge of Palestinian-French human rights worker Salah Hamouri, ignoring the appeals by local and international NGOs who condemned the...

The Saudi-led coalition has carried out a three-day intensive air strike campaign in Hudaydah which came to an end yesterday, Al Jazeera reported. Dozens of Houthi fighters have been...

More than 30 international and Palestinian human rights groups and organisations have urged the UN Human Rights Office to make public a list of companies linked to Israel’s illegal...

Israeli authorities and armed forces carried out extrajudicial executions, tortured Palestinian prisoners and targeted human rights defenders, Amnesty International’s new annual report says. 2017 “marked the 50th anniversary of...

“Inequalities” between men and women in Yemen have been “exacerbated” as a result of the ongoing crisis in the country and resulted in the “rise” of negative coping mechanisms,...

Amnesty International has condemned what it terms Egypt’s “human rights crisis”, in its annual World Report which found the crackdown on civil society escalated further in 2017. The report,...

The world is in danger of spinning out of its humanitarian axis warned Amnesty International in its annual report on “The State of the World’s Human Rights”. Published today,...

Amnesty’s latest report today accused the Houthis of “using the judiciary to settle political scores” amid the on-going civil conflict in Yemen. The investigative research findings reveal that three...

An Israeli military court has sentenced a Palestinian resistance fighter to four life sentences after three settlers were killed in an illegal outpost last year, according to Ynet News....

The Israeli Defence Ministry has proposed a bill that would see Israel deduct money from the Palestinian Authority (PA) in protest of the payments given to the families of...

Amnesty International has appealed to Libyan and European leaders to take urgent action to protect migrants and refugees from the horrific human rights violations in Libya. In an urgent...

A Turkish court today ordered the conditional release of the jailed chairman of Amnesty International in Turkey, the rights group said, although the trial will continue despite criticism from...

A Saudi court has sentenced human rights activists Mohammad al-Otaibi and Abdullah al-Attawi to 14 and seven years in prison respectively, rights group Amnesty International reported on Thursday. The Saudi activists had faced...

Amnesty International has launched an urgent appeal demanding Israel immediately release Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi, 16, who faces 10 years in prison. The organisation appealed to its friends...

Kuwait has called upon the Philippines ambassador to lift a ban on domestic workers, Al Khaleej Online reported today. “We have lost about four Filipino women in the last...

Amnesty International called on the Saudi authorities yesterday to release cleric Salman Al-Ouda, who is in his sixties, after he was admitted to a hospital in Jeddah. News of...

Amnesty International has urged Israeli authorities to release 16-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, ahead of a military court appearance today. “Tamimi will go before Ofer military court in the...

The director of Sednaya Prison, the most notorious jail run by the Syrian regime, Brigadier General Mahmoud Ahmad Maatouq has been killed in what are being described as mysterious...

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced 71 persons to prison for 10 years each for “protesting without a security permission and inciting riots” over protests that took place in...

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a Sweden-based Iranian academic convicted of spying for Israel, reports Reuters. Ahmadreza Djalali, a medical doctor and lecturer at the Karolinska...

Palestinian activist Issa Amro tells MEMO about his experiences of being arrested by Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and his thoughts on the upcoming court case brought against him by...

Living in the besieged Syrian province of Eastern Ghouta, a Pakistani couple hope to return home