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,...

Turkey released Taner Kilic, the chair of Amnesty International Turkey, yesterday after detaining him for over 14 months. Kilic’s trial will resume on 7 November. “I think the campaign...

Amnesty International has condemned the state of “impunity” enjoyed by the Egyptian security forces five years after the violent dispersalof the sit-in organised in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahdha Squares...

Amnesty International has launched an online petition to reveal the fate of 75,000 people who were forcibly disappeared during the war in Syria. The Syrian government is subjecting tens...

UK Ambassador to the UN Karen Pierce took over the Security Council presidency for August on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. At a news conference at UN headquarters, Pierce discussed the British presidency...

An employee of global human rights group Amnesty International was targeted with Israeli-made surveillance software, the organisation revealed today. According to AP’s report, the disclosure adds “to a growing...

An Egyptian court said on Saturday it would transfer the cases of 75 people convicted of security-related offences, including senior Muslim Brotherhood figures, toEgypt’s top religious authority to decide whether...

The global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has condemned the passing of a controversial law by the Israeli parliament that recognizes the country as a Jewish state and risks...

The Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi armed group in Yemen are hampering the delivery of aid to Yemen, a new briefing released by Amnesty International reveals today. Amnesty International...

Amnesty International called on Wednesday for the authorities in Bahrain to release the Shia opposition leader Ali Salman immediately, ThenewKhalij.news has reported. Amnesty’s call came just one day before...

Eighteen human rights groups and civil liberty organisations, including Amnesty International, have warned the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen about the arbitrary detention of their Yemeni colleagues. The warning came...

The blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt has torn the social fabric in the Gulf Arab states, hurt families and individuals and cast a dark...

The Italian foreign ministry has called on Israeli occupation authorities not to demolish a Bedouin village and an Italian-funded school in eastern Jerusalem, expressing concern that such a step...

The US-led coalition fighting Daesh in Syria may have committed war crimes, a report by Amnesty International has found. According to the rights group, there was “a strong prima...

The Egyptian government has been accused of interfering in labour union elections taking place this month by excluding leaders of independent labour organisations from the electoral race. Several activists,...

Saudi Arabia arrested prominent rights campaigner Mohammed Al-Bajadi, Amnesty International said today, as part of a crackdown mostly targeting advocates of women’s rights in the conservative Kingdom. The government...

Algeria has sentenced a blogger to ten years in jail after finding him guilty of providing intelligence to “agents of a foreign power,” his lawyer said. The criminal court...

Saudi Arabia has released veteran women’s rights activist Aisha Al-Manea following her arrest last week with several other activists in a crackdown just weeks before a ban on women...

Saudi Arabia has arrested at least three more women’s rights activists in a widening crackdown just weeks before a ban on women driving is set to end, international rights...