Human Rights

How Israel has engineered a system of apartheid on West Bank roads

Every afternoon, Palestinian commuters sit behind military gates while Israeli settlers drive on. The system is built to exhaust them and make staying on their land harder

Sisi says he will go in 2030. The army will decide who comes next

Hesham Gaafar

UN must investigate death of UAE poet and writer Habib al-Sayegh, advocacy group says

Macron told to not let Bahrain 'buy France's silence' as he tours Gulf

Egypt detains entire newsroom of leading fact-checking platform over 'fake news' allegations

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Gaza students take Ireland to court over visa refusals

In Egypt, leaving prison does not mean escaping the security state

Asim Qureshi

Where do Muslim youths fit in India's 'Cockroach' protests?

Nabiya Khan

Egyptian detainees issue call for government to apply new caps to pretrial detention

Egypt hits out at HRW over damning torture report

Torture in Egypt 'may amount to crime against humanity': HRW

Palestinian Authority arrests activist over Facebook post

'Raped below a picture of Assad': Women describe abuse at hands of Syrian forces

Iran re-imposes death sentence on spiritual figure that Supreme Court quashed

What's a life worth? The Kafkaesque ordeal of Guantanamo Bay’s youngest ever prisoner

Peter Speetjens

Rohingya bodies found on Bangladesh coast as thousands flee Myanmar

'Day of the Disappeared': Syrian victims and families need justice, say rights group

Sudan's Bashir pardons top activist accused of spying

Iran and Yemen have most severe blasphemy laws: US report

UAE drops jail term for Singaporeans for 'dressing feminine'

Qatar approves new law to protect domestic workers