Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) released statements Monday condemning Ukraine's use of secret facilities to detain individuals. The two groups released a joint report earlier this summer detailing the use...
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Egyptian human rights lawyer Malek Adly was released from prison Sunday following a Saturday decision by an Egyptian court. Adly had been held in solitary confinement for more than 100 days without a formal charge, and his incarceration...
Venezuelan authorities on Saturday arrested a major opposition leader, Daniel Ceballos, stating that the arrest was to prevent his efforts at destabilizing the country . Ceballos, the former mayor of San Cristobal, was arrested in March 2014, accused of...
The California Superior Court on Friday rejected a challenge to the state's recently enacted physician-assisted suicide law. In June California passed the End of Life Option Act which would allow "terminally ill" patients to...
The Supreme Court of El Salvador on Saturday ordered the release of three ex-military officers who had been jailed for killing six Jesuit priests during the country's civil war. In 1989 a team of about...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday denied an emergency petition for a full en banc rehearing regarding the Wisconsin voter identification law . A federal court in July decided that...
The Illinois Supreme Court concluded on Thursday that placing a redistricting proposal on the ballot this fall would be unconstitutional. The proposal would have transferred legislative mapmaking power to an independent commission and had the backing of...
An Argentine federal court concluded a human rights trial on Thursday against military officers during the dictatorship era. The court in Córdoba, Argentina, acquitted five defendants and sentenced 28 to life and 10 to between...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed , on Friday urged Iran to halt the execution of Alireza Madadpour and 11 other individuals convicted on drug related offenses. All 12...
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled on Friday that the University of North Carolina (UNC) must allow transgender students to choose and use restrooms matching their gender...
