Amnesty International

The two major political parties in the US have waded into the debate about whether or not Israel is a racist state by passing a non-binding resolution pledging loyalty...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement has condemned in the strongest possible terms the resolution passed by the US House of Representatives which proclaims that Israel is "not a racist...

Amnesty International yesterday called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to release dozens of Emirati citizens who have been "unjustly imprisoned" for a decade, following a mass trial that...

Israeli occupation forces carried out "disproportionate air strikes," killing and injuring Palestinian civilians in Gaza last month, Amnesty concluded in a report published yesterday During May's offensive, "Israel unlawfully destroyed Palestinian homes, often without military necessity, in what amounts to a form of...

An Amnesty International report published this month revealed details of the latest systems used by the Zionist state to enhance its comprehensive monitoring of occupied Palestine and its people,...

The Saudi Interior Ministry yesterday announced that it had carried out the death penalty against Ahmed Al Badr, who is from the Shia minority in the east of the...

The Iranian judiciary stated on Friday that three men were executed after being convicted of participating in the most recent protests. It added that Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and...

Kuwait, Afghanistan and Palestine returned to using the death penalty after years of not implementing the punishment

Syrian refugees detained by security forces in Lebanon and deported have been subject to arrest and forced conscription upon return to their war-ravaged homeland, their relatives and rights advocates...

Human rights organisations yesterday called on Saudi authorities to provide details regarding the health of activist Mohammed Al-Qahtani who has been imprisoned for years on charges including "conspiring against...

Amnesty International yesterday called on the Lebanese authorities to "immediately stop deporting refugees back to Syria … amid fears that Syrian refugees are at risk of torture or persecution...

Amnesty International on Sunday called for an independent investigation into the Israeli forces' killing of a Palestinian Bedouin citizen of Israel, Dr. Mohammad Al-Osaibi, at the entrance to Al-Aqsa...

EU funding is facilitating the commission of abuses against migrants in Libya who are being systematically tortured and forced into sexual slavery. The warning came out of a probe...

More than 200,000 people have signed a petition calling for putting an end to the demolition of Palestinian homes as a first step towards dismantling apartheid, Amnesty International said yesterday. The rights group's petition, named Demolish...

Iran has granted amnesty to 82,000 people, including 22,000 protesters, according to the head of the country's judiciary on Monday. Addressing a meeting of the top judiciary council, Mohseni...

Amnesty International called on the Tunisian authorities yesterday to stop using its "legal arsenal" against activists who "exercise their basic human rights, specifically their right to express their opinions...

Commenting on the violent settler attack on the occupied West Bank village of Huwara last week, Amnesty International has said that "impunity reigns for perpetrators of settler violence" against Palestinians....

Egyptian human rights organisations have published a leaked letter from the Badr 3 Prison for Reform and Rehabilitation, revealing the continuation of violations against detainees, especially the denial of medical...

Amnesty International called on the Egyptian authorities on Wednesday to immediately release the founder of a human rights organisation and 13 other defendants who are being tried under "absurd...

Tunisian authorities are escalating efforts to crack down on high-profile critics and perceived opponents of President Kais Saied with the arrest of at least ten people in a week...

Over two days since a massive earthquake hit Turkiye and Syria, international aid is not reaching northwest Syria. In the early hours of Monday morning a 7.8 magnitude earthquake...

Amnesty International has warned that many young Iranians, including teenagers, detained over their participation in anti-government protests, are at risk of execution and have been tortured, Bloomberg reported yesterday....

Amnesty International slammed Morocco, on Wednesday, for imprisoning migrants trying to cross into the Spanish exclave of Melilla, Anadolu News Agency reports. The Moroccan Association for Human Rights said,...

Amnesty International has criticised Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir's "repressive" ban on raising the Palestinian flag in public places inside Israel as a "cowardly and expected attempt...

Non-governmental organisations on Friday condemned the "scandalous and illegal" attempts in France to deport migrants to Syria and called on the French government to clarify these practices that violate...

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The Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad yesterday issued a legislative decree granting a general amnesty for military service deserters on the condition that they surrender within three months for...

Israel's war on Palestine is not confined to the battlefield. It is also waged in the media, nowhere more prominently than in the New York Times. Long regarded within...

Amnesty International has accused an armed group linked to General Khalifa Haftar in the east of Libya of committing "war crimes and other crimes under international law" against thousands...

An Amnesty International report into the death of at least 37 people at the border fence between Morocco and Spain's enclave of Melilla in June has found that Moroccan...

At a time when the Israeli occupation authorities are preparing to deport French-Palestinian Jerusalemite human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri, local and international human rights organisations have described the move...

UN member states should establish an "international, independent" entity to track and identify those missing and forcibly disappeared since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, Human Rights...