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

Are sanctions Israel’s new enemy?

Meron Rapoport

Egyptian rights group accuses justice system of double standards

‘I live to face things, not run from them’: Repression and asylum in Egypt

Charlie Hebdo: The spectre of the 'years of lead' for Algerian journalists

Hassina Mechai

Film festival highlights Sahrawi humanitarian crisis

Qatar failing to deliver on labour reform: Amnesty

Poland pays damages to Palestinian and Saudi detained by CIA

UAE releases three sisters jailed for tweeting about detained brother

UAE urged to release 3 sisters held for tweets

Food scarcity is fanning flames of ‘war on terror’

Nafeez Ahmed

At GCC summit, Obama must confront Saudi on human rights

Husain Abdulla

Qatar to look at ending ‘kafala’ system in 2015