Amnesty International

The Palestinian Return Centre in London (PRC) has announced that it is to host an international panel discussion on the situation of Palestinian refugees in Syria in the light...

The latest annual report from Amnesty International criticises Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially with regard to the ongoing siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and settlement...

International human rights organizations have accused Israeli authorities of escalating operations to destroy Palestinian property over the past year. They asserted that "When compared to 2010, ...

Egyptian political parties and groups have signed a document renouncing violence, a move called for by the authorities at Al-Azhar Mosque and University during a meeting they sponsored on...

Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of the Palestinian administrative prisoner, Ahmed Qatamesh, considering him a "prisoner of conscience," who was jailed for expressing his opinion. The...

Four states in the Middle East are responsible for 99 per cent of the death sentences carried out in the region, Amnesty International has revealed. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq...

Amnesty International has labelled Israel's Prawer-Begin Bill which allows for the displacement of Bedouins in the Negev Desert as "racist". The human rights group called on the Israeli government...

American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks, purported to be targeting Al-Qaeda operatives, have killed dozens of civilians in Yemen, Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed on Tuesday. In a detailed...

Amnesty International has urged the countries neighbouring Syria, and particularly Jordan, to keep their borders open to all those fleeing the conflict. In a new report published on Thursday,...

On 1 November, Gaza's only power plant, which normally provides around 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip's electricity supply, ran out of fuel. For the past month, Gaza's...

36 human rights organisations demanded on Wednesday for Israel to put an end to the demolition of Palestinian homes in the areas under its control in the West Bank....

The International Criminal Police Organization or INTERPOL has decided to cancel the red memorandum to arrest Iraq's former Vice President Tareq Al Hashimi; Al Hashimi's office reported. Al Hamishi's...

Amnesty International has criticised the decision by the military appointed government in Egypt to forcibly disperse pro-Morsi sit-ins from Rabaa Al-Adawiyya, Al-Nahda and other Egyptians squares. The organisation, warned...

A spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Badr Abdel Atti, has admitted that the country's foreign minister, Nabil Fahmi, had misquoted an Amnesty International report. He described the incident...

Amnesty International has called for an impartial and effective investigation into the killings that took place in Egypt over the previous days. It also described the response of the...

Egypt's interim foreign minister is fast becoming a national embarrassment and an object of ridicule across the Middle East. In his latest gaffe, Nabil Fahmy introduced his Saudi counterpart,...

Human rights activists and International Criminal Court judges have asked the US to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir when he arrives in New York to attend the UN General...

Amnesty International has accused Egypt of detaining and deporting hundreds of refugees who fled from the conflict in Syria. The human rights organisation condemned the detention of children and...

Amnesty International North Africa campaigner, Nicholas Piachaud has confirmed that Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi's human rights have been violated. Piachaud accused the Egyptian authorities of undermining Morsi, who is...

The conviction and imprisonment of 21 female protesters, including seven girls, after they participated in a peaceful pro-Morsi demonstration in Alexandria shows the Egyptian authorities' determination to punish dissent,...

In a letter to the editor of The Times today (18 December) the UK Director of Amnesty International, Kate Allen said the newspaper's denunciation of the arrest warrant for...

Amnesty International has demanded that the Israeli authorities release the Palestinians held under administrative detention or grant them swift and fair trials. In a report released today (6th June),...

Amnesty International has called for an end to police brutality in Egypt, saying that the use of excessive force against protesters by security forces is not justified. The human...

Israel's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Dutch Ambassador in Tel Aviv over the Dutch water supplier Vitens' decision to end its partnership with the Israeli water company Merokot because...

Amnesty International (AI) has denounced the reaction of the European Union (EU) to the growing Syrian refugee crisis. So far, EU member states have only opened their doors to...

In late September, retired senior U.S. military officials were part of a delegation that went to Egypt on a visit organized by Virginia-based think tank the Westminster Institute (WI),...

Perhaps understandably, the US is secretive about its drone programme. But over the last decade, thousands of unmanned drones have been deployed in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia as part...

When the borders of Gaza were sealed by Israel in June 2007 the population faced a situation that was, inevitably, going to deteriorate on every level very quickly. A...

When political protesters are arrested by "oppressive regimes" around the world, human rights organisations are the first to rally the call for justice. In practically every issue of Amnesty...

When I was at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC (1999-2000), I introduced myself to people as "a politician and academic."  My attention was drawn politely to the...

The controversy surrounding Richard Goldstone's op-ed in the Washington Post last week sees no signs of abating.   One of the latest legal figures to weigh into the debate...

At a press conference held on 18 May in The Hague, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, announced that he was seeking warrants, in accordance with...