Amnesty: Burundi mass graves found in satellite investigation
Amnesty International (AI) reported Friday that satellite images show five possible mass graves in Buringa, Burundi, which may be connected to last month's infamous massacre. On December 11, security forces killed at least...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said Tuesday that Burundian authorities failed to provide entry to independent rights experts dispatched by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate rights violations in...
Chinese authorities on Tuesday released and deported Swedish citizen charged with training and funding unlicensed lawyers, after the Swedish embassy expressed concerns over the charges last week. Peter Dahlin had appeared on Chinese national television...
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in a case regarding a North Dakota law that would ban abortion as soon as a heartbeat is detectable, as early as six weeks. The Abortion Control...
HRW releases report outlining flaws in Iranian electoral system
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday released a report outlining serious flaws in the Iranian electoral system which they say are damaging prospects for free and fair parliamentary elections on February 26th. The report states that...
A delegation from the United Nations Security Council on Friday met with top government officials in Burundi, in an effort to end months of political turmoil in the country. Led by Ismael Gaspar Martins, Samantha...
According to a 300-page judicial report released Thursday, the poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was "probably approved" by President Vladmir Putin . In his report, Sir Richard Owen noted that Litvinenko's crossings with...
The US State Department released a statement Tuesday expressing concern over reports of "serious human rights violations and abuses" in Burundi. Allegations of mass graves, sexual violence by security forces, and enforced disappearances and torture are...
Sweden rights advocate 'confesses' on Chinese national television
Peter Dahlin, a Swedish rights advocate who had been detained in China on charges of endangering state security, confessed his crimes on Chinese state television on Tuesday. In the interview, which aired on State Broadcaster CCTV,...
A German court on Monday announced that Hubert Z, a 95-year-old German man accused of being an accessory to the murder of 3,681 people at Auschwitz, will stand trial next month. Because of Germany's privacy laws Hubert Z's last...
