Human Rights

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Israel is making Palestinians disappear in more ways than one

Reports of missing children and 'evaporated' bodies reveal a widening pattern of erasure in Gaza, where entire families are killed, lost under rubble or reduced to biological traces

Head of Palestinian rights group Al-Haq barred from entering France

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

John Rees

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

Egyptian disappears after declaring he regrets voting for Sisi

Wife of prominent Yemeni politician pleads to stop his deportation from Egypt

Egypt arrests mother of political prisoner Mohamed Hamdi

Inside Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets, says rights group

India risks becoming 'main generator of atrocities', UN official warns

Egypt: Poet jailed for criticising army attempted suicide in prison

Rights groups condemn Biden for allowing $235m in military aid to Egypt

Saudi Arabia: Rights groups call on X to protect users after man's death sentence

Leaked videos raise concerns about dire conditions inside Egypt's Badr prison

'World's worst arms dealers': More than 40 Israeli firms at London weapons fair

Yemen's Houthis and STC accused of forcing Ethiopian women into 'sexual slavery'

UK apologises to Matthew Hedges after watchdog finds Foreign Office 'ignored' signs of UAE torture