Human Rights

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

The new Criminal Procedure Code, adopted in November and set to take effect in October this year, promises to place limits on periods of pretrial detention

UK's Burnham urged to address alleged UAE plot against British academic

Why EU-Israel data-sharing deal must be quashed

Raja Natour

Anas Altikriti case raises crucial questions about Britain's alliance with the UAE

Peter Oborne

Five years after the fall of Kabul, 'war on terror' ghosts have come home

Moazzam Begg

British activist Anas Altikriti questions UAE surveillance operation

‘The right to stay’: Italy’s Albanian diaspora sails back to support the Flamingo Revolution

Syria after Assad

'They almost killed my child': Women in Syria's Roj camp describe night of gunfire and fear

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Who will heal Gaza when the bombing stops?

Shoug Mukhaimar

WATCH: 'The Confession' - Q&A with Moazzam Begg

The bombing of hospitals makes a joke of international humanitarian law

Federica Marsi

PM slams 'left-wing' human rights claims against UK troops

Britain to allow troops to opt out of human rights law

Bulgaria bans the niqab

Saudi Arabia contradicts itself on child executions at UN

UK trained hundreds of guards working at Bahrain’s death row jail: Report

Sudan kills women and children in Darfur chemical attacks: Amnesty

VIDEO: Amal Clooney 'delighted' at prospect of prosecuting Assad

WATCH: Amal Clooney 'delighted' to prosecute Assad

Canada urged to cancel controversial torture directive

Turkey jails 45 students over 2012 anti-Erdogan protest