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

Egyptian political prisoners face a 'slow death' say observers

Prominent Syria rights defender Mazen Darwish freed

A daughter’s struggle to free her father from a UAE jail

UN calls for release of Iranian spiritual leader on death row

Suffering and loss in Istanbul’s transgender slum

USA: A clone of Israeli national security state

Richard Silverstein

The wives of Turkey's missing and a gender view of human rights

White House finalising plan to close Guantanamo

American psychopaths: The shrinks who assisted in torture

CJ Werleman

Push to give Palestinian rights group official UN status

IS 'targets civilians' in Iraq says UN report

The second hunger strike of Khader Adnan