According to a news report on Sunday, Turkey's government has dismissed 10,000 additional civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets for their supposed connection with US-based religious leader Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey has accused of orchestrating the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called into question Tunisia's use of house arrests under a November 2015 state of emergency decree. According to the release, at least 139 people have been put under house arrest...

An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed former president Mohamed Morsi's 20-year prison sentence. The prison sentence arose from a conviction for the killings of protesters during 2012 demonstrations. In addition to Morsi, several other senior figures from the...

UN experts investigating the October 8 attack on a packed funeral hall in the Yemeni capital, which is currently under rebel control, accused the Saudi coalition Thursday of violating international humanitarian law. According to the experts' report, "the...

A federal judge on Friday ordered a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor accused of stealing classified government documents to remain in custody while awaiting trial. The judge said of the former NSA agent, Harold Martin...

Australia is using the island of Nauru as an "open-air prison," putting refugees and asylum seekers through an abusive processing system as a means to prevent immigration, according to a report released by Amnesty International (AI) ...

Less than 24-hours after canceling a hearing on the vote-by-mail ballots, District Judge Mark Walker for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida issued an order requiring Florida to provide a method for...

The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah , issued a decree to dissolve the parliament on Sunday. The decision was made due to "mounting security challenges as well as volatile regional developments." As of...

US District Court for the Northern District of Florida , issued an order on Saturday cancelling a hearing on a lawsuit regarding vote-by-mail ballots. Judge Mark Walker was highly critical of Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner...

A group of UN human rights experts spoke Friday on the subject of the death penalty and terrorism, calling the death penalty ineffective , and often times illegal, in deterring to terrorism. Speaking ahead of the World Day Against...