Amnesty International

An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli cyber security firm NSO Group, on August 28, 2016 in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

August 1, 2018, 3:35 am

Amnesty International says employee targeted with Israeli spyware

NSO Group says product was 'intended to be used exclusively for the investigation and prevention of crime and terrorism' and that allegations of wrongdoing will be investigated

By Raphael Satter

Jordanian journalist Yousef Alawnah speaks to Saudi 24 TV in an interview that aired on June 12, 2018. (screen capture: MEMRI)

June 29, 2018, 11:10 pm

Jordanian journalist ‘ashamed’ to compare dire Arab jails to Israel’s prisons

Yousef Alawnah describes 30 months behind bars in Israel as like being at an 'institute of education,' says other detainees in the region are 'being held in dungeons'

By TOI staff

In this Thursday, April 5, 2018 photo, rubble of buildings line a street that was damaged during fighting between US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters and Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, Syria.(AP/Hussein Malla)

June 5, 2018, 5:18 am

Rights group: US coalition killed hundreds of civilians in Syria’s Raqqa

Amnesty accuses US-led forces of showing little regard for lives of non-combatants, indiscriminately shelling city in battle for de-facto IS capital

By AP

Women wearing niqab exit the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 31, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Ritzau Scanpix / Mads Claus Rasmussen)

May 31, 2018, 6:07 pm

Denmark bans Islamic full-face veil in public spaces

Parliament overwhelmingly supports prohibition on niqab, burqa; Amnesty slams move as 'discriminatory violation of women's rights'

By Camille BAS-WOHLERT

Illustrative: In this June 14, 2014 photo, Egyptian women hold banners during a protest against sexual harassment in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

May 12, 2018, 2:06 pm

Egyptian activist arrested for blasting government inaction on sexual harassment

Amnesty International says Amal Fathy is being held over video criticizing state of human rights in Egypt

By TOI staff

Illustrative photo: Egyptian men attend their trial at a court in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 (AP/Aly Hazzaa, El Shorouk)

May 7, 2018, 6:47 am

Amnesty accuses Egypt of ‘torture’ in solitary confinement

Human rights group says dozens of detained political opponents are 'denied any human contact and kept in horrific cell conditions'

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 6, 2018, 9:22 pm

Amnesty calls on Netanyahu to apologize for post on Arab soccer fans

False claim that Sakhnin club disrupted tribute to 10 teens killed in flash flood was shared on PM's Facebook page, removed a few days later with no comment

By TOI staff

Palestinians try to pull down part of the border fence between Israel and Gaza east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, during the fifth straight Friday of mass riots along the border between Gaza and Israel, on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

April 28, 2018, 3:24 pm

Rights group calls for arms embargo on Israel over Gaza riots

Amnesty International accuses IDF of carrying out 'murderous assault' on Palestinians at border; Israel says terror group Hamas uses protests as cover for bids to breach fence

By TOI staff

A caricature featured in the Belgian textbook Polaris GO!3. (Courtesy of Joods Actueel via JTA)

March 23, 2018, 5:58 pm

Rights group calls cartoon depicting greedy Israelis ‘misleading’

Caricature illustrating Amnesty International's claim that Israel denies Palestinians proper access to water is used in some Belgian textbooks

By JTA

Alireza Avaie (Alireza.gharibdoust / Wikipedia)

February 22, 2018, 8:01 pm

Outrage as Iran justice minister set to address UN human rights meet

Alireza Avaie has been sanctioned for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners' rights, and increase in executions

By AFP

January 24, 2018, 6:04 am

Maajid Nawaz

Human rights are universal, Amnesty, even for Jews

The organization's move to cancel a debate featuring Hillel Neuer shows they have lost their way

Sixteen-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi (2nd right) stands for a hearing in the Israeli military court at Ofer military prison in the West Bank, on January 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

January 15, 2018, 10:01 pm

Court extends remand of Palestinian teen who slapped Israeli soldiers

Ahed Tamimi to stay in detention for at least 2 more days, as judge considers whether to allow her out on bail ahead of trial

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi (C) attends a hearing at the Ofer military court in the West Bank on December 28, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

January 15, 2018, 2:25 pm

Amnesty demands Israel release soldier-slapping Palestinian teen

As 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi appears in court, human rights group calls continued detention and indictment 'blatantly disproportionate'

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Iraqi Kurdish security forces escort a suspected member of the Islamic State group who was arrested the previous day during clashes in the southern suburbs of Kirkuk, October 22, 2016. (AFP/Marwan IBRAHIM)

December 14, 2017, 4:11 pm

Iraq hangs 38 members of Islamic State, al-Qaeda for terrorism

Executions carried out at Nasiriyah prison in the presence of Justice Minister Haidar al-Zameli

By AFP

In this photo, members of the Syrian Civil Defense group, known as the White Helmets, inspect cluster bombs in the Khan Sheikhoun neighborhood of Idlib, Syria, September 29, 2016. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

November 30, 2017, 2:48 pm

Syrian military used banned cluster bombs in besieged area — Amnesty

Regime forces committing war crimes on 'epic scale,' says human rights body

By AP