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 conviction of Radovan Karadzic has lessons for Syria's war

Alex MacDonald

Qatar pardons and frees poet three years into 15-year jail term

Iran rejects 'biased' UN human rights report

Iran executed nearly 1,000 people last year: UN expert

16 Egyptian rights groups urge UN human rights chief to intervene and halt abuse

CAGE director regrets 'inappropriate' comments on Jihadi John

Gulf states urged to stop abuse of domestic workers

Canadian 6-year-old still on no-fly list despite government assurances

Palestinian ends 93-day hunger strike as jail deal reached

ANALYSIS: Will Obama's last-ditch effort to close Guantanamo succeed?

Year of calamity and misery for Middle East region in 2015: Amnesty

Palestinian hunger-striker's challenge to Israel's detention system

Ghada Ageel