Amnesty International

A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) into abusive and discriminatory policing found that Israeli officials co-ordinated with far-right Jewish ultra-nationalists during May's civil unrest in the mixed Jewish and Palestinian...

The human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has called on states to repatriate 27,000 of their child nationals from the Al-Hol camp in north-east Syria, where the children of foreign...

Amnesty International has warned of the increasing number of Tunisian civilians facing military courts, a report issued yesterday said. The rights group said that the civilians are being targeted "in some...

Amnesty International has called on Egypt to stop using emergency courts to detain human rights advocates where "proceedings are inherently unfair." The watchdog's comments come as three prominent human...

Syria executed 24 people after convicting them on terrorism charges for igniting last year's devastating wildfires, the Justice Ministry said Thursday, AP reports. According to the report, those executed...

Amnesty International (AI) has urged the Sri Lankan government to put an end to violence and discrimination against the island's Muslim minority. According to a statement released on Sunday,...

Kuwait's emir today paved the way for an amnesty to pardon dissidents, which has been a major condition of opposition lawmakers to end a months-long standoff with the appointed...

Amnesty International yesterday called on Iran to halt the execution of a young man who was sentenced to death for a crime that took place when he was 17...

Israeli shops have been dealt a hammer blow by sports clothing manufacturer Nike

Seventy-six global rights organisations yesterday called on the United Arab Emirates to release human rights defenders and activists. In a letter addressed to UAE ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed...

Egyptian authorities are holding the founder of the country's largest dairy products and juices producer and his son in conditions that amount to torture because of their refusal to...

Amnesty International has released a report to say that 66 Syrian refugees who returned home have been detained, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by Syrian security forces. The report, "You're...

Egypt's Interior Minister and National Security Agency officers have carried out unlawful extrajudicial executions in so-called shootouts, Human Rights Watch has said in a report. According to the publication, these...

Six Syrian refugees arrested and detained by the Lebanese authorities must be released "unless they are charged with a recognisable offence," Amnesty International has urged. The six were arrested...

Amnesty International has urged the Syrian regime to lift the siege imposed on the Daraa Al-Balad neighbourhood and to allow humanitarian aid into the area where nearly 20,000 people...

Amnesty International called on Thursday for Tunisian President Kais Saied to lift "arbitrary" travel bans and respect citizens' right to freedom of movement, Anadolu has reported. That right, said...

Amnesty International has said that waiving restrictions on US military assistance to Egypt risks America becoming complicit in human rights abuses. The statement made by the advocacy director for...

Ben & Jerry's decision to stop business relationships with the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories is "a legitimate and necessary response, in line with its responsibility to...

Amnesty International yesterday called on Egypt to investigate a propaganda video released by the Egyptian army showing people being shot dead during a security operation in North Sinai. "The...

Moroccan human rights activists on Tuesday urged Rabat not to extradite a Uyghur man to China, citing fears he might face arbitrary detention or torture, reports Reuters. Yidrissi Aishan...

"As soon as the G20 spotlight on Saudi Arabia faded the authorities resumed their ruthless pursuit of people who dare to express their opinions freely or criticize the government,"

Amnesty International yesterday accused the Lebanese authorities of "obstructing" the quest for justice in the investigation into the Beirut port explosion which killed nearly 200 people and left 300,000 others homeless one year...

Morocco has arrested an Uyghur activist following a warrant issued by China accusing him of terrorism. Concerns are growing that BelgiumUyghur/ will now be extradited to China, which has...

The phone numbers of French President Emmanuel Macron is said to be amongst the list of 50,000 names on Israeli company NSO's Pegasus target list, i24 News reported. It...

On March 2, 2017, Mexican journalist Cecilio Pineda took out his mobile phone and in a Facebook live broadcast spoke about alleged collusion between state and local police and...

German journalist associations on Monday demanded clarification and counter-measures in the wake of revelations about the use of an Israeli-made spying software against activists and reporters, says Anadolu Agency....

Saudi authorities targeted the phones of those close to journalist Jamal Khashoggi before and after his murder, a new investigation into the data leak of some 50,000 phone numbers selected for...

The notorious Israeli spyware developed by the NSO Group, Pegasus, is at the centre of an international scandal involving the alleged phone hacking of more than 180 journalists, lawyers,...

Amnesty International today urged the Ethiopian authorities to end arbitrary detention of Tigrayans, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the global human rights watchdog said: "The arrests appear to...

Amnesty has condemned the horrific violations being committed against migrants who are returned to Libya after they try to cross the Mediterranean to head to Europe. In a report...

New details of alleged torture of prominent political activists detained in Saudi prisons have emerged, confirming widespread abuse and mistreatment that were reported by rights groups and media agencies...

There has been a huge backlash against the UK's proposed anti-immigration bill which grants asylum seekers different rights based on whether they arrived in the country legally or illegally,...