A UN human rights experts on Saturday said that detainees in Sri Lanka are still experiencing torture as a tactic used by criminal and terrorism investigators seven years after the country's civil war ended. The comments were made ...
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced six people, including three journalists, to death for allegedly leaking state secrets to Qatar. The three journalists were tried in absentia and will have the ability to appeal the ruling. However, a...
An El Salvador court agreed on Saturday to consider a civil case against former president Mauricio Funes for alleged illicit enrichment. An unexplained USD $728,000 in expenditures and income is being investigated, but no criminal charges [AP...
Pakistani human rights activist Khurram Zaki was killed by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on Saturday, according to local police. Four individuals on motorcycles approached a restaurant Zaki was in and opened fire , killing Zaki and...
Death row prisoners in India are facing inhumane treatment , according to a two-part report released Friday by the Death Penalty Research Project at the National Law University in Delhi . The...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Friday that he does not plan to change the country's anti-terrorism law, a requirement of a deal struck between Turkey and EU in March. Erdoğan made the announcement ...
UN top official Stephen O'Brien on Thursday called for the immediate investigation of recent airstrikes in Syria which may amount to war crimes for intentionally targeting civilians. The airstrikes hit two displacement settlements located...
The Non-Alligned Movement (NAM), a loose organization of 120 developing countries, stated on Thursday that the US has violated international law by allowing frozen Iranian assets to be dispersed to victims of terrorism. NAM's accusations specifically target last...
Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday suspended lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha after being suspected of obstructing investigations into his allegedly corrupt activities. Cunha currently faces corruption charges for taking bribes from companies trying...
A group of more than 750 detainees held on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea asked the Australian High Court on Wednesday to order their transfer to mainland Australia and block a transfer to the detention center in...