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

Turkey's media raids threaten to silence serious dissent

UK government has 'wrecked trust' with Muslim community, says rights group

Saudi court sentences poet to death for apostasy

The poison of Guantanamo will spread until its prisoners are set free

Victoria Brittain

US transfers five Guantanamo detainees to UAE

White House hints at executive order to close Guantanamo

Sisi’s foreign policy: A ‘miracle’ for Israel but a disaster for Palestine

Hanine Hassan

Shaker Aamer, Guantanamo's 'last Briton,' freed after 14 years

Mauritanian detainee freed from Guantanamo Bay

Qatar slammed by rights groups over 'cosmetic' labour reforms

Saudi Arabia to free Briton facing flogging over homemade wine

Middle East states 'using anti-IS web war to stifle dissent'