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

Libya: UN raises alarm over ‘gross violations’ after scores of bodies found at militia sites in Tripoli

Forcibly disappeared Egyptian poet marks 145 days in UAE detention, family calls for release

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s mother at risk of ‘sudden death’, doctor says

UN panel rules Alaa Abd el-Fattah's detention illegal under international law

Turkey busts Chinese spying ring using fake cell towers

Mother of Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah resumes full hunger strike

'I feel lost and hopeless': Middle East activists struggle to survive after USAID cuts

Alleged US plans to deport people to Libya 'inhuman,' rights groups say

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Israel is starving Gaza to death, and still the world does nothing

Mads Gilbert

UAE launches influencer academy to 'whitewash' country's reputation, say critics

Alaa Abd el-Fattah falls ill after marking 50 days of hunger strike

Egypt prison deaths a 'warning sign' as conditions deteriorate sharply