Human Rights

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Israel is making Palestinians disappear in more ways than one

Reports of missing children and 'evaporated' bodies reveal a widening pattern of erasure in Gaza, where entire families are killed, lost under rubble or reduced to biological traces

Head of Palestinian rights group Al-Haq barred from entering France

UK mass crackdown on Palestine activism has brought chaos to the courts

John Rees

Why Israel's death penalty law is a massive setback for human rights

Hussein Abu Hussein

‘Policing thought’: French bill to fight antisemitism accused of silencing Israel critics

US and Israel vote against UN resolution recognising slavery as 'gravest' crime against humanity

Prominent feminist activist Yanar Mohammed shot dead in Iraq

Family of Francesca Albanese sues Trump administration over sanctions

NHS mental health trust withdraws from counter-terror police programme

Palestinian family in Hebron traumatised after repeated Israeli settler attacks

'Silly play': Nizar Banat's family sees no hope for justice in 'complicit' PA judiciary

Queen's Platinum Jubilee: What are former colonies to make of all this?

Hamid Dabashi

Celebrities demand Egypt release Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Egypt: Alaa Abd el-Fattah 'lost lots of weight' after 72 days of hunger strike

India: Two killed in police crackdown on protests over Prophet Muhammad remarks

Whistleblower testifies to US Senate about mass graves in Syria

Kuwaiti activist sentenced to five years in prison for tweets 'insulting' Saudi Arabia

Biden's message to Middle East journalists: You are on your own

David Hearst

Alaa Abd el-Fattah denied lawyer access in prison on 69th day of hunger strike

Moazzam Begg: Ex-Guantanamo detainee gets right to UK passport back after eight years

Alaa Abd el-Fattah family says activist still on hunger strike, denies Egypt report