Human rights organization Amnesty International has reiterated its condemnation of the Israeli practice of detaining Palestinians without charge or trial, based on undisclosed evidence, after the administrative detention sentences of three high-profile prisoners were recently [ More … ]
A lawyer for activists arrested by UAE authorities and subsequently jailed himself for ten years has been awarded with Ludovic Trarieux Award for defending freedoms and human rights. A UAE lawyer sentenced to ten years [ More … ]
The Syrian regime is engaging in industrial-scale killing and burning victims’ bodies in a purpose-build crematorium near Damascus, according to the US government. Syria regime is engaging in industrial-scale killing of detainees, while disposing tens [ More … ]
Number of executions worldwide in 2016 drops from 2015, while Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s Egypt manages to double its number of capital punishments carried out. China executed the most people in 2016, followed by Iran and [ More … ]
Bashar Al-Assad has said in a new interview that the evidence of torture and mass hangings in Syria are fabricated and accused Amnesty International of making lies to discredit his “embattled government.” Yahoo News made an exclusive interview [ More … ]
Bashar Al-Assad has said in a new interview that some of the refugees are in fact terrorists, just days after Amnesty international published a report about mass execution in Assad regime’s prisons. Yahoo News made [ More … ]
Al-Sisi has met with the Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Alex Younger in Cairo in the presence of the Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service Khaled Fawzy and discussed cooperation in counter-terrorism. [ More … ]
France Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian met Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi at a Cairo meeting on Sunday. The French minister said that France appreciates Egypt’s pivotal role as a main pillar for security and stability in the [ More … ]
Amnesty International revealed on Monday in a report analyzed by a munition expert that it has evidence that the Saudi-led coalition, battling Yemeni rebels, dropped a U.S.-made bomb on a hospital,. Amnesty International said, that the [ More … ]
Iranian authorities have intensified their repression of women’s rights activists in the country in the first half of this year, carrying out a series of harsh interrogations and increasingly likening any collective initiative relating to [ More … ]
By: Merve Şebnem* Turkish people haven’t seen any merciful reactions from Amnesty International for the Turkish civilians who lost their lives or were severely wounded by the Gülenist coup plotters Amnesty International, a so-called non-governmental [ More … ]
Hillary Clinton has been criticizing Donald Trump for praising dictators; but practically Clinton herself has a history of alliances with strongmen in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Honduras. The Intercept has published an article titled: “Donald Trump Praises [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia on Thursday said it was “alarmed and outraged” by a call from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for the kingdom to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council until a Saudi-led military [ More … ]
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to suspend Saudi Arabia from the U.N. Human Rights Council until a Saudi-led military coalition stops killing civilians in Yemen. [ More … ]
European Union nations say Turkey is a safe country for migrants to be returned to despite some Greek court rulings that people should not be sent back there. Speaking at a press conference, Klaas, Dutch [ More … ]
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