China: Documentary filmmaker Chen Pinlin sentenced to three and a half years for covering ... RSF calls for Egypt to immediately free Alaa Abdel Fattah, as his mother hits 100 days of hunger strike ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined more than a dozen human rights organisations in calling on UK Foreign Minister ...

I've been on hunger strike for over 100 days because I cannot allow my son to continue languishing in prison' - Laila Souief'The Foreign Secretary has said Alaa's case is a "number one" issue for his ...

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy visits Cairo on Thursday to press local officials to release a jailed British-Egyptian ...

The family of a jailed British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist hope David Lammy can secure his release when he visits Egypt on Thursday. The Foreign Secretary is expected to press for Alaa Abd ...

Peter Greste, who was jailed for 400 days in Egypt, has joined Abd el-Fattah's mother in going on a hunger strike for the ...

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Sudan's leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing him of choosing war over negotiations to bring an end to the conflict that has killed ...

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of destabilizing the war-torn Northeast African nation and undermining peace efforts. Burhan and his Sudanese Armed Forces have been at war with Gen. Mohammad Hamdan Daglo ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (KUNA) -- The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Thursday the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan over ...

OFAC sanctioned SAF commander Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, stating that the leader is “choosing war over good-faith negotiation and de-escalation.” OFAC also sanctioned Ahmad Abdalla, a Sudanese-Ukrainian ...

LONDON (Reuters) - An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press the British government to help secure the release of ...