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

Palestinian family in Hebron traumatised after repeated Israeli settler attacks

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