Human Rights

Palestinian women and girls face brutal abuse in Israeli jails

More than 700 have been arrested since the Gaza genocide began, enduring brutal conditions of starvation, isolation and humiliation

Why Israel's death penalty law is a massive setback for human rights

Hussein Abu Hussein

‘Policing thought’: French bill to fight antisemitism accused of silencing Israel critics

US and Israel vote against UN resolution recognising slavery as 'gravest' crime against humanity

Prominent feminist activist Yanar Mohammed shot dead in Iraq

Family of Francesca Albanese sues Trump administration over sanctions

NHS mental health trust withdraws from counter-terror police programme

UK Home Office graph reveals shocking scale of Palestine Action arrests

Jailing of Pakistani rights lawyers marks ‘new wave' in dissent crackdown, says former minister

Singer John Legend: Time to speak up for human rights for Palestinians

'I can't bear this': Detained Emirati woman battles cancer in prison

Jordanian journalist arrested over Facebook post released from UAE prison

Two former Syrian government agents arrested in Germany over abuses

China retaliates after Turkey's claims about prominent Uighur poet

China's treatment of Uighurs is 'embarrassment for humanity', Turkey says

How Saudi Arabia and the UAE are silencing dissent

Andreas Krieg

What Palestinians experience goes beyond the PTSD label

Samah Jabr

HRW raises alarm over human rights abuses across Middle East in 2019

Saudi human rights defender gets backing for Nobel Peace Prize

Pope Francis' UAE visit: A public relation coup

Bill Law

Bahraini footballer Araibi to spend weeks more in Thai prison