Campaign groups call on Home Office to stop ‘steady erosion’ of protest rights
Civil society organisations demand home secretary protects the ‘safety valve’ of democracy
Rights and freedom
UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile
Saudis living in the UK claim Riyadh is targeting them for speaking out on human rights and jailing of female activists
Other lives
Patricia Dale obituary
Other lives: GP and public health specialist who became general secretary of the Medical Practitioners’ Union
June 2024
EU-funded Egyptian forces ‘rounding up and deporting Sudanese refugees’
Egypt forcibly returned 800 Sudanese detainees in first three months of this year, Amnesty International reports
Labor urged to put human rights record before trade as Chinese premier visits Canberra
Anthony Albanese should seek commitments for concrete action in his talks with Li Qiang, campaigners say
Rights and freedom
Saudi Arabia accused of using forced labour ahead of Fifa World Cup decision
Union’s claim of ‘epidemic of migrant worker abuses’ could force Fifa to reject state as 2034 host if it fails to meet rights obligations
May 2024
Ebrahim Raisi obituary
Ruthless prosecutor linked to thousands of executions who rose through the theocratic ranks to become the president of Iran
April 2024
Rights and freedom
UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally
US and UK complicit in detentions at Syrian camps where torture rife, says Amnesty
March 2024
Rights and freedom
Another World Cup will be tainted by worker deaths if Fifa fails to act, say rights groups
Saudi Arabia is likely to host the 2034 tournament, but a Guardian investigation has revealed there are already a high number of ‘unexplained’ migrant worker deaths in the Gulf kingdom
Other lives
Gunnel Ingham obituary
Other lives: Librarian who moved from Sweden to the UK and became a key member of her local Amnesty group
Open letter to Sunak condemns ‘crackdown’ on right to protest
Amnesty International UK among 46 groups to warn of ‘chilling effect’ of new legislation and policing powers
February 2024
Tories’ Rwanda safety bill is an abuse of the rule of law
Letter: No amount of tinkering with the government’s proposal for deporting asylum seekers can make it compatible with human rights, says Sacha Deshmukh of Amnesty International UK
December 2023
Rights groups decry Greek investigation into migrant shipwreck that left more than 500 dead
Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah ‘killed by Israeli tank shell’
November 2023
Humanitarian pause v ceasefire – the debate over how to ease Gaza’s suffering
Letter: Sir Nicholas Stadlen obituary
October 2023
Major UK retailers urged to quit ‘authoritarian’ police facial recognition strategy
Human rights campaigners say the Pegasus initiative wrongly criminalises people of colour, women and LGBTQ+ people
September 2023
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Suella Braverman criticised by Labour over ‘deeply divisive’ migration speech – as it happened
BBC ‘urgently looking into issues raised’ by Russell Brand allegations