Human Rights

Prominent feminist activist Yanar Mohammed shot dead in Iraq

Organisation for Women's Freedom in Iraq calls campaigner's death a 'tremendous loss' for rights activists

UK Home Office graph reveals shocking scale of Palestine Action arrests

Jailing of Pakistani rights lawyers marks ‘new wave' in dissent crackdown, says former minister

Swiss councillors to vote on Uefa tax exemption over failure to suspend Israel

Israel's genocide in Gaza

UK grants asylum to Palestinian citizen of Israel over fear of persecution

UK court clears British activist Majid Freeman over role in Leicester riots

UK anti-protest laws may be 'in breach' of international human rights obligations

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Palestine Action-linked hunger striker hospitalised for fifth time

Tunisia's political prisoners are being humiliated in filthy bug-infested cells

Hotel Rwanda hero released from prison following Qatar and US talks

'War crimes in Palestine': UK government urged to refer Israel and Netanyahu to ICC

UN rapporteur calls on India to end attacks on human rights activists in Kashmir

Meet the new journalist union head who sent shockwaves through Egypt

Biden administration's human rights report buries Shireen Abu Akleh killing

Ex-Egyptian MP dies in prison, the eighth political prisoner death in three months

Inside Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia releases US man sentenced for 19 years over tweets

Egypt: Human rights groups warn of 'torture and abuse' at Badr prison complex

Germany: Police admit people detained under ‘protest ban’ just looked Palestinian

UK: Asylum seekers 'fear for their lives' if Home Office moves them to Dunstable

'PR disaster for Bahrain': Activist critical of Manama parliament arrested ahead of global MP assembly