A Decade of Silence in Itai Dzamara Disappearance ©AP Photo  Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Zimbabwean journalist and pro-democracy activist Itai Peace Dzamara, ...

The abuse is most evident in Iran, which bans the faith and has been widely accused of persecuting its adherents, human ...

Ten years after China launched a sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers, international rights groups led by Amnesty ...

Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death.

The June 23 airstrikes on Evin prison, including the hospital ward, have turned it from a hated symbol of oppression into a ...

The ban places Palestine Action in the same legal category as groups like al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS), making it a criminal offence to support or be associated with the protest group ...

Human rights lawyer Ruth López, detained in El Salvador for alleged illicit enrichment, was moved to a harsher prison despite ...

In the weeks since the conflict began, Iranian authorities have arrested more than 700 citizens—all accused of collaborating ...

Europe's human rights watchdog Friday expressed concern that Serbian authorities were using excessive force and arbitrary ...

Israeli airstrikes killed 15 Palestinians in Gaza early on Friday, while a hospital said another 20 people died in ...

June 30 marked the fifth anniversary of Beijing’s imposition of a heavy-handed national security law (NSL) on Hong Kong, which has altered the sociopolitical landscape of the city by undermining its ...