Challenging Israel’s occupation, Palestinians create ‘Gate of the Sun’ village
By Amnesty International Campaigner Saleh Hijazi In the small hours of Sunday, more than 500 Israeli police surrounded around 130 Palestinian activists at a protest camp on the hills opposite the...
View ArticleThe Universal Periodic Review, human rights, and Israel: What’s at stake
By Peter Splinter, Amnesty International’s Representative to the United Nations in Geneva If the Israeli government is not careful, it will ruin an important global human rights process for everybody....
View ArticleSexual attacks on women in Egypt
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Egypt researcher Almost every girl and woman – regardless of age, social status or choice of attire – who has walked the streets or taken public transport in...
View ArticleThe price of protest in Saudi Arabia
Abeer al-Sayed recounts her arrest at the weekend after she and a group of women and children took part in a protest against the ongoing detention of their relatives outside the offices of Saudi...
View Article‘A hope to be reborn far from here’
Syrian activist Bassam Ahmed Al-Ahmed recalls his time as a detainee alongside his friend, doctor Ayham Mustafa Ghazoul, whose family was recently informed of his death while in the custody of Syrian...
View ArticleTo My Valentine: Death will not part us
By Cilina Nasser, Amnesty International’s Syria researcher When Siham Abou Sitte fell in love with Ghassan al-Shihabi, she was drawn by his determination to keep the memory of old Palestine alive, his...
View ArticleRead WIRE and take action against the death penalty
“I can’t believe he’s not here anymore,” Lubou Kavalyoua told WIRE about her son, Ulad, who was executed and buried in secret last year. She still doesn’t know where his grave is. Read their story on...
View Article‘Why is the world doing nothing?’– cluster bomb attack by the Syrian army in...
By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s Senior Crisis Adviser In a field hospital, which I won’t name for security reasons – too many field hospitals have been bombed already – a little boy of 7,...
View ArticleWe wish to inform you that tomorrow you will be executed
Muhammad Haza’a is one of some 180 people facing death in Yemeni prisons for crimes they allegedly committed when they were under 18. He is due to be taken out of his crowded prison cell tomorrow...
View ArticleAleppo’s river of death
By Donatella Rovera Aleppo’s Kweik river, keeps washing up the bodies of men and boys who have been shot in the head at close range. Some have their hands tied behind their backs, some have marks...
View ArticleOne Palestinian village Obama should visit
Sunjeev Bery, Amnesty International’s USA advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa. Yesterday morning, US President Barack Obama arrived in Israel to much fanfare. He has said that he...
View ArticleFuneral at Coptic Cathedral ends in violence
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Egypt researcher On Sunday I attended the Cairo funeral of four Coptic Christians killed on Friday night in Khousous, a small town north of the city. I had...
View ArticleA West Bank village in protest against Israel’s military occupation
by Lamri Chirouf, Amnesty International’s delegate in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Last month we drove northwest from Ramallah to visit the small village of Budrus, which gained international...
View ArticleLibyan militias fighting to hold on to their grip on power
Amnesty International researchers have been in Libya looking at what’s happened in the country since the downfall of former leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. This is what they found: The number of armed men...
View ArticleJournalists remain defiant in Syria despite targeted attacks
On World Press Freedom Day, Noor Al-Bazzaz from Amnesty’s Syria research team describes how Syria’s defiant journalists are under attack from all sides. The Syrian authorities have for decades tried to...
View ArticleDissent still under attack in post-Mubarak Egypt
By Diana Eltahawy, Egypt Researcher at Amnesty International While the world is celebrating the 20th World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, the crackdown on freedom of speech and dissent continues unabated...
View ArticleOpposition activists in the ‘defendants’ cage’ amid ongoing crackdown
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Egypt Researcher Today I attended the first hearing in the trial of 12 people, including three leading activists, at a Dar Al Qadaa Al-Ali court. They are...
View ArticleEgypt’s opposition activists in the dock
By Amnesty International’s delegation in Egypt Arriving at court in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement district court on 13 May, we saw supporters of political detainees and members of the riot police....
View ArticleEgypt: Time to address violence against women in all its forms
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Egypt researcher Violence against women in Egypt gained national and international attention following a series of well-publicized sexual assaults on women in...
View Article‘Fish out of water’ yet again: Palestinian refugees from Syria in Egypt
By Neil Sammonds, Amnesty International’s Syria researcher Bahaa, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, has taken a short break from his precious decorating job to take me to meet his family in 6th of...
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