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

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

Iran upholds death sentence for Iranian-Swedish dissident 'lured to Turkey'

Exclusive: Asylum seekers speak out in protest at Greenwich hotel

Formula One: British MPs blast organisation over Bahrain and Saudi Arabia 'sportswashing'