Israel’s refusal to grant Palestinian refugees the right to return has fuelled seven decades of suffering, international rights group Amnesty International said in a statement released today. Marking Nakba...

Amnesty International called on Yemen’s Houthi movement, which controls the capital Sanaa, to free 10 journalists held for nearly four years on what the rights group described as trumped-up...

Iranian authorities secretly executed two 17-year-old boys convicted of multiple rape charges in an unfair trial, according to a statement from Amnesty International. The two cousins, Mehdi Sohrabifar and...

Thousands of people prayed on Friday outside the defence ministry in Khartoum, site of a massive anti-government sit-in that has continued unabated even after the military removed President Omar...

The US-led international coalition killed more than 1,600 civilians during its assault on the Syrian city of Raqqa against Daesh militants, an 18 month investigation by Amnesty International and...

A court in Bahrain has convicted 139 people of terrorism offences during a mass trial, revoking the citizenship of all but one, according to an Amnesty International press release....

Saudi Arabia systematically uses the death penalty to crush opposition figures, Amnesty International has said, noting that the country’s Public Prosecution is planning to execute more activists. Saudi’s Public...

Amnesty International reported that the number of executions has decreased by about a third in 2018, reaching its lowest levels in more than ten years. Secretary-General Kumi Naidoo said:...

Saudi Arabia has arrested eight people, including two dual US-Saudi citizens, in an apparent crackdown on supporters of women activists whose trial has drawn Western condemnation, rights groups said...

The whereabouts of 4,247 residents of Raqqa is still unknown according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), who called on the international community to make discovering their...

Amnesty International said that the forces of Bashar Al-Assad regime continue the deliberate targeting of health centres, furnaces and neighbourhoods in Idlib, northern Syria, with the support of Russia,...

Amnesty International criticised the European Union on Wednesday for a “shameful” abdication of its humanitarian responsibilities after the bloc agreed to withdraw ships patrolling the Mediterranean for migrants attempting...

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...