Human Rights

More than 100 foreigners executed in Saudi Arabia in 2024

Rights groups say 2024 marks largest number of foreigners executed in kingdom's history

Scottish police refuse to take action over Interpol chief accused of torturing Britons

British torture victims file criminal complaint against Emirati Interpol chief

Inside Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia fails to win seat at top UN human rights body

Pro-Palestine activism facing suppression in Europe, Muslim groups warn

Egypt ramps up crackdown on exiled human rights defenders, says report

Egypt: Alaa Abdel-Fattah's mother says she will refuse food until his release

Sudan crisis: Women and girls must be at the heart of global response

Anneliese Dodds

UN General Assembly should call for release of Bahraini dissidents, say rights groups

Turkish officials deny arrest of 34 Muslim Brotherhood members

Cop27: How the climate crisis and resistance to Sisi's autocracy are linked

Katherine Hearst

Biden administration not taking 'concrete steps' to close Guantanamo, defence lawyers say

UK 'broke own funding rules' by giving Bahrain millions as it executes prisoners

Bahrain: Rights groups urge Pope Francis to raise religious freedom concerns during visit

Israel's ugly obsession with the Palestinian birthrate

Osama Tanous

Amnesty calls for probe into possible war crimes during Gaza offensive in August

Afghan Americans enraged over US marine's 'abduction' of orphan

Sisters of Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah ask UK foreign office to secure his release

Alaa Abdel Fattah’s sisters call on UK foreign office to secure Egyptian icon's release

Qatar World Cup 2022

Qatar World Cup stadium company ‘built Uyghur internment camp’

‘It's my last hope before I kill myself’: Asylum seeker threatens to end his life in Malaysia