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

'Americans are pro-torture and proud of it'

CJ Werleman

Iran leads 'alarming surge' in Middle East executions

Foreign Office appears to have 'deprioritised' human rights, say MPs

Two Libyan inmates released from Guantanamo Bay

Is Oman really the peaceful anomaly of the Middle East?

Egyptians expected to admit tracking movements of murdered Italian student

Russia's six-month Syria campaign killed at least 1,100 civilians, say monitors

Family's search for truth over death of Palestinian 'hero' in Bulgaria

FIFA slammed over continuing 'forced labour' on Qatar World Cup projects

‘World Cup slavery’ still rampant in Qatar

Canada calls on UN to review Palestine human rights appointment

Canada's new 'anti-radicalisation' office met with caution by Muslim community