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...

Children as young as eight were raped in the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz, Amnesty International said yesterday, pointing out that the suspects are militiamen backed by the Saudi-led...

Egypt has been withholding the bodies of several prisoners after their execution, preventing their families from burying them, according to Ahmed El-Attar of Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms....

Scores of Egyptian human rights defenders have been targeted by government-backed “phishing” attacks since the start of this year, Amnesty International revealed yesterday. The London-based rights group announced that...

An Egyptian photojournalist, convicted of covering the Rabaa massacre in 2013, has been released after spending five years in prison. Mahmoud Abu Zeid, also known as Shawkan, was freed...

Global indifference to human rights violations in the Middle East is fuelling atrocities and repression, warns Amnesty International in its latest review of human rights in the Middle East...

Responding to the news that a court in the city of Mascara has sentenced activist, Hadj Ghermoul, to six months in prison and a fine for “offending public institutions”...

Amnesty International has forcefully rejected claims of “anti-Semitism” by Israeli officials in response to a new report on tourism and illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The...

Amnesty International has slammed travel companies and called for an international boycott of Israeli tourism operating in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). The NGO singled out digital tourism giants...

Amnesty International has uncovered new testimonies detailing the torture and ill-treatment of a group of Saudi Arabian human rights activists, who have been arbitrarily detained since May 2018. In...

Demonstrators took to the streets of Sudan again with the intention of submitting a popular petition to parliament calling for President Omar Al-Bashir to step down. In the city...

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,...