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

US urges Iran to release imprisoned Baha'i leaders

Bahraini prince accused of torture flies to UK for royal horse event

Electrocuted and beaten: Ex-US Marine sues Iran over alleged torture

Pakistani human rights activist shot dead after praising Sadiq Khan election victory

British MPs criticise reliance on Saudi Arabia to investigate abuse in Yemen

Canada to join torture prevention protocol

Senior Saudi cleric: Homosexuality should not be punished

The fiction of UK government’s human rights report on Israel

Ryvka Barnard

Transsexual and Egyptian: Defying the odds

'Disappeared' UAE academic claims prison torture in first court session

'Surprise' at release on bail of prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah

Regeni murder: If only Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall had been Italian

Kamel Hawwash