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

Arab despots may have won the battle, but the struggle is not yet over

David Hearst

Family of slain Palestinian says Israeli forces 'executed' him in refugee camp

Israeli forces fatally shoot Palestinian man in the back in the West Bank

Egypt sentences Alaa Abdel Fattah, blogger and lawyer to years in prison

Protesters gather in London to oppose plans for removal of citizenship without notice

The hounding of Julian Assange leaves honest journalism with no refuge

Jonathan Cook

Egypt: Wife of jailed journalist renews calls for his release

Morocco: Rights groups condemn approval of extradition of Uighur activist to China

New Caledonia referendum: France's last pocket of settler-colonialism

Joseph Massad

UN says a third of Arab world's population does not have enough to eat

Israel used ‘abusive policing’ against Palestinians in Lod during May unrest, says HRW

Why Biden's 'democracy summit' got it all wrong

Marco Carnelos