Amnesty International called yesterday for the Egyptian authorities to immediately release Egyptian human rights activist Hoda Abdelmonem. In a tweet, the rights group wrote that Abdelmonem had been forcibly...

A Palestinian mother who was released from a Palestinian Authority prison last week has told a press conference that the investigators there threatened to rape her. Suha Jbara’s defence...

Amnesty International’s Middle East Research director slammed the US-led Coalition on Friday, saying it had not learned from its mistakes in the past. Lynn Maalouf’s remarks were in reaction...

Amnesty International has condemned an unprecedented assault by Sudanese military forces on a hospital in the city of Omdurman on Wednesday. In a bid to quell ongoing protests that...

The Sudanese Reform Now Movement (Islah) announced yesterday that it is withdrawing from government and pulling its representatives from all legislative councils. Party leader Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani demanded the...

A court in the United Arab Emirates today upheld a ten-year jail sentence against pro-democracy campaigner Ahmed Mansoor for criticising the government on social media, two sources said. The...

Amnesty International activists delivered a “special Christmas hamper” to the UK Foreign Office earlier this month, to highlight campaigners’ demand for a ban on Israeli settlement produce. The hamper...

Amnesty International on Thursday issued a report revealing damages by Daesh terror organization on water wells, farmlands, and livestock in northern Iraq – in a deliberate attack on the...

A group of six international rights groups called for a “robust” response to Egyptian authorities’ harassment of citizens who met with the UN special rapporteur and gave her details...

Amnesty International has urged the Palestinian Authority to “urgently investigate” the alleged torture of Suha Jbara, a joint Palestinian, US and Panamanian citizen who has testified that she was...

Amnesty International accused on Tuesday the Iranian authorities of “committing crimes against humanity by concealing the fate of thousands of slaughtered political dissidents,” who were said to have been...

A Saudi dissident is to sue Israeli spyware firm NSO after its software was used by Saudi Arabia to track him and murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Omar Abdulaziz –...

Amnesty International’s Israel division has demanded that the Defence Ministry revoke the licence of spyware firm NSO as a result of its links to Saudi Arabia were disclosed. Amnesty...

Several women’s rights activists who have been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for more than six months have been subjected to psychological or physical abuse while in custody, the Washington...

New findings released by Amnesty International have laid bare the Egyptian government’s violations against children, including forcibly disappearing and torturing minors. Released on the occasion of World Children’s Day...

Detainees at a prison in Syria are on hunger strike in protest of death sentences that were handed to political prisoners

On Tuesday, Amnesty International issued a public statement conveying its deep concern over reports of mass executions of Ahwazi detainees by the Iranian regime following months of detention, supposedly...

The Egyptian government has upheld a death sentence against Sheikh Abdel Halim Gabreel, an 80-year-old Quran tutor, with Amnesty International campaigning for him to receive a presidential pardon. On...

Egyptian authorities “have stepped up their onslaught against the country’s human rights community by arresting at least 19 human rights lawyers and activists in a series of raids today,”...

Amnesty International today warned of a new “zero tolerance” policy by Israeli forces towards Palestinian demonstrators in the occupied Gaza Strip, raising “fears of escalating bloodshed”. In a statement,...

France is flouting international law by continuing to sell arms to Egypt, despite evidence that they have been used in brutal crackdowns on civilians, Amnesty International has revealed in...

Up to 2,500 bodies have been dug from the rubble in the Syrian city of Al-Raqqa, Amnesty International said on Friday. Most of the dead were civilians after tens...

Noureddine Ben Ysaad, the head of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, reported that 27 death sentences were issued in Algeria last year. However, the total number...

London-based rights watchdog Amnesty International on Saturday announced “10 overarching demands” of women and children living in Greece’s refugee camps to overcome human rights violations. In the report published on Saturday, the human...

Israeli settlers yesterday flooded Khan Al-Ahmar with waste water, storming the Palestinian Bedouin village and confronting residents. The settlers came from the illegal Israeli settlement of Kfar Adumim, located...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel threatened to cancel her visit to Israel if the planned demolition of Palestinian village in occupied West Bank took place before her trip. Israel’s Army...

With Israeli authorities’ demolition of Palestinian village Khan Al-Ahmar imminent, after an October 1 deadline ran out, Amnesty International has declared that the destruction of the community in the...

Family and friends mourn during the funerals of those killed by Israeli occupation forces

Israel’s Supreme Court has approved a war crime, Amnesty International stated yesterday, responding to the latest decision that paves the way for Israeli authorities to demolish the Palestinian village...

Amnesty International yesterday has protested against past and current arms deals signed between Israel and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte who is currently visiting the country. Activists from the rights...

Amnesty International has called for solidarity with female Saudi activists detained by the authorities for over three months without charges or trial. The organisation asked activists around the world...

Amnesty International has called for Houthis in Yemen to immediately release a human rights activist abducted by two militants. On its website, the London-based rights group wrote: “Kamal Al-Shawish,...