The last Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo, Faiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari, has been repatriated to his home country, the US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday. The Periodic Review Board (PRB) determined in September that "continued law...

Ethiopian government security forces have killed 140 protesters in the Oromia region despite December reports of only five deaths, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday. The protesters began demonstrations in November against the government's plan to expand...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday encouraged the Yemen government to reconsider its decision to expel the country's human rights representative. The government claimed that George Abu al-Zulof, the...

US-based tech companies Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo submitted evidence on Friday of possible conflicts that may arise from the UK government's proposed Investigatory Powers Bill . Should the bill pass, tech companies would be required...

A federal court in Ohio on Tuesday sentenced Serbian refugee Slobodan Mutic to two years in prison for lying on immigration forms about his participation in ethnic cleansing and genocide in the former Yugoslavia. A spokesperson for...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged the Chinese authorities to release 38 lawyers and activists associated with the Beijing Fengrui Law Firm who have been held in "designated residential surveillance" since July. Designated Residential...

Venezuela's National Assembly swore in three opposition deputies on Tuesday despite a Supreme Court ruling that barred the induction of the elected lawmakers. The ruling suspended four elected lawmakers for...

Guatemalan prosecutors arrested 17 former military and government officials on Wednesday on charges of committing massacres and other human rights abuses during the Guatemalan civil war. Government security forces have been blamed for the vast majority of the...

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday signed a controversial media control bill into law. Under the new law, the treasury minister will replace the National Broadcasting...

Two Yemeni men captured in Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay for 14 years have been released to Ghana, officials said Wednesday. These two are among the 17 detainees scheduled for release this month . The men...