Chinese authorities on Monday detained hundreds of activists in Beijing marking the twenty-third anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. The arrests came a day after the US urged China to free Tiananmen Square activists who...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Bailey v. United States to determine whether police officers may lawfully detain individuals incident to a search warrant when those individuals have...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Rwanda to stop assisting an accused war criminal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who is wanted...

Former Mongolian president Nambar Enkhbayar went on trial for corruption charges on Monday. Enkhbayar was arrested in April and charged with corruption and abuse of power during his time as president until 2009. Enkhbayar told reporters that he believed...

The Supreme Court of Libya on Sunday agreed to rule on a controversial law that criminalizes and punishes speech and propaganda endangering the security of the state or glorifying former leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC...

Egyptian prosecutors plan to appeal the verdict in the trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his associates, a court official told reporters on Sunday. An Egyptian court on Saturday found Mubarak...

The UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) released a report on Friday finding that Canada was complicit in rights violations against three Canadians who were held prisoner in Syria, and against Omar Khadr, who is currently...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced on Sunday that his government had nothing to do with last week's Houla massacre and that "not even monsters" would carry out the attacks. Al-Assad made his remarks,...

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Friday filed notice with the Cook County Circuit Court stating that her office will present arguments in support of two lawsuits filed in opposition of the state's same-sex marriage...

Amnesty International (AI) on Sunday demanded that China immediately release protesters who have been imprisoned since the self-immolation of two Tibetan men in Lhasa late last month. According to Tibetan activists, China has...