Sheikh Tawfiq Jaber Ibrahim al-'Amr risks a harsher sentence when his appeal is heard within the next few weeks. He has been serving a three-year prison sentence ...
Sixteen-year-old Ahmed Ismael al-'Akkad, who suffers from asthma, has been held incommunicado in conditions possibly amounting to enforced disappearance since 20 ...
The ongoing internal armed conflict in Syria is fuelling a mass outflow of people seeking safety abroad, with more than 1.3 million refugees from Syria having fled ...
Six reformist prisoners of conscience have been kept behind bars, while 10 others, several of whom were out on bail, are now released under a “pardon” on condition ...
This briefing summarizes Amnesty International's current concerns about the UK's failure to comply with some of its obligations under the UN Convention against ...
Prominent Bahraini human rights activist and prisoner of conscience NabeeI Rajab is not receiving adequate medical care in detention for severe back pain.
Three Egyptian activists continue to be detained in solitary confinement in Alaqrab high security prison after their preventive detention was renewed on 15 April ...
Amnesty International has twice written to ministers in the Israeli government to express serious concerns regarding the proposed “Law for Regularizing Bedouin ...