Lawyers for Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and members of the Bahrain opposition appealed a conviction on Monday for anti-state charges to the Court of Cassation. Al-Khawaja was sentenced to life imprisonment last year by a military court and is now on a hunger strike, which has lasted over 50 days. In addition, seven other opposition leaders were [...]

The Israeli Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a Palestinian family’s appeal claiming ownership of a historic property in Jerusalem. The Husseini family claimed that they are the rightful heirs and owners of land that was once the Shepherd Hotel, also known as the former residence of Hajj Amin Husseini , who served as a prominent [...]

George Boley, former leader of the Liberian Peace Council (LPC), was removed from the US on Saturday for his role in human rights abuses in the 1990s during the Liberian Civil War . An immigration judge ordered his removal from the US in February for recruiting child soldiers and other human rights violations. His removal [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns on Friday called on India’s government to take stronger measures to end extrajudicial and arbitrary executions . While commending India for its willingness to listen to new ideas and improve in the area of human rights, Heyns said at the conclusion of a 12-day [...]

A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the Cambodian government to give its full cooperation to the new judges that will eventually be appointed to investigate the genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime . The statement also explained that the secretary-general will begin the process of selecting a new Co-Investigating Judge and [...]

President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Nabeel Rajab, an outspoken critic of violent government crackdowns against protesters, may face criminal charges for the role he has played in anti-government protests, his lawyer said Sunday. Rajab was arrested just before a planned demonstration against the imprisonment of a prominent rights activist, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, [...]

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Friday agreed to hear the case of Guantanamo detainee and Algerian national Djamel Ameziane. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) , co-counsel for Ameziane, states that Ameziane has been held at Guantanamo Bay without any charge or trial [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin ruled on Friday that certain portions of Wiscosin’s Budget Repair Bill , which limits the rights of unions to collectively bargain, are unconstitutional. Seven of Wisconsin’s largest public unions challenged the bill on grounds of right to assembly under the First Amendment [...]

A French court in the town of Rouen decided that French-Rwandan citizen Claude Muhayimana can be sent to Rwanda to face charges concerning his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide , reports said on Friday. An international arrest warrant for Muhayimana was issued in December after he was accused of participating in killings and other [...]

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday urged the Chilean government to pass a new law aimed to protect its citizens from discrimination based on their sexual and gender identities. Spokesperson for the OHCHR, Rupert Colville, released the statement in response to the killing of a 24-year-old gay man , [...]