Human Rights

UK mass crackdown on Palestine activism has brought chaos to the courts

As hundreds of cases grind through the system, high-profile activists are seeing their charges dismissed or rejected

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

Swiss councillors to vote on Uefa tax exemption over failure to suspend Israel

Cage director challenges 'coercive' Schedule 7 powers in court appeal

US interrogators made threats against detainee's family in Qatar and Saudi Arabia

Israeli bullet destroys dream of Gaza cyclist heading to Asian Games

Fearing execution, Saudi Shia are forced into a life in hiding

Iran rejects US human rights critique as 'biased by political objectives'

Ahmed Mansoor: UAE wants the world to forget about its 'million-dollar dissident'

Joe Odell

Trudeau must resolve case of Canadian tortured in Sudan: Amnesty

Belhaj case: UK ordered to hand over file on Libyan torture

State control and sham trials: Egypt's civil society is 'under siege'

Middle East tops death penalty list with 'gruesome tally' of executions

When it comes to Middle East policy, the UK is nothing but a rogue state

Mark Curtis

'Our fight is a just fight': Mauritania's slave descendants push for equality