A well-known female human rights activist was detained Tuesday by government authorities in Saudi Arabia. Samar Badawi was detained and interviewed by Saudi prosecutors, allegedly for her involvement in managing a Twitter account that campaigned for the...
Former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic was indicted Friday for war crimes committed during Croatia's war of independence. Vasilikovic was indicted in Croatia six months after being extradited from Australia. The 61-year-old holds dual Serbian-Australian citizenship. Vasiljkovic...
More than a dozen death row inmates in Zimbabwe on Sunday submitted a plea to the nation's constitutional court through a local NGO, arguing that their death sentences are unconstitutional. The inmates have spent between four and 20 years...
A court in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, on Wednesday agreed to hear China's first legal challenge over a refusal to issue same-sex marriage applications. A 26-year-old man filed a case against a civil affairs bureau...
The high court of Bangladesh on Monday upheld the death sentence of Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes committed in the country's war for independence against Pakistan in 1971. Nizami's conviction was upheld on charges of genocide,...
Approximately six million Rwandans on Saturday approved a referendum by a vote of 98% to amend Article 101 of the Rwanda constitution which states the president may only serve two seven-year terms. The referendum [Telegraph...
The French Human Rights League and the Collective against Islamophobia on Thursday joined over 100 organizations to issue a statement asking the French government to lift the state of emergency. The petition urges the...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in four cases. In Birchfield, Danny v. North Dakota , consolidated with Bernard, William R. v. Minnesota and Beylund, Steve M. v. North Dakota, the court will...
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Friday issued an order blocking the Native Hawaiian Role Commission (NHRC) from counting the ballots and certifying the winner of a wholly native-Hawaiian election now taking place in...
A prominent human rights lawyer was fatally shot Saturday while delivering a press statement in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Tahir Elci was an influential figure in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, and he was the head of...
