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

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

It's open season on the Muslim Brotherhood

David Hearst

Unworthy victims: Western wars have killed four million Muslims since 1990

Nafeez Ahmed

US names allies Egypt and Turkey in report on global attacks on freedom

Toronto-based filmmaker freed from prison in Iran

Rights groups urge Obama to help Gulf 'free speech' prisoners

Egyptians express solidarity with Italian student's family as probe continues

'I was punched, hit and tasered' in Dubai jail: Ex-Leeds United chief