A Saudi Arabian court on Saturday sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing atheist sentiments in recent social media posts. The religious police of Saudi Arabia, who are in charge of monitoring social...
The Nigerian army on Saturday set up a human rights office at its headquarters in the capital city of Abuja in order to continue training officers about respecting rights of citizens. This comes in light of the country's ongoing...
A former member of the Black Panthers was released from prison on Friday after having spent a record 43 years in solitary confinement. Albert Woodfox had been detained in solitary confinement since 1972 after...
Serbian lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that will allow restitution of heirless and unclaimed Jewish property taken during the Holocaust. The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) , which aggressively campaigned for the bill to be passed, said...
The US Senate on Thursday approved legislation that will place a permanent ban on states taxing Internet access. The Senate, by a vote of 75-20, passed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015...
The Maryland Senate on Tuesday overrode a veto by Governor Larry Hogan to pass bill that will allow felons to vote before they complete parole or probation. Sixty percent of the Democrat-dominated Senate voted...
A Kenyan member of parliament (MP) on Friday evening called for all judges of the Kenyan Supreme Court to resign after it was recommended that a tribunal investigate Justice Philip Tunoi for allegedly accepting a Sh200 million...
The chief prosecutor of Zimbabwe was charged Tuesday with obstructing justice after he dropped a case against the men accused of plotting to bomb a dairy operated by members of President Robert Mugabe's family. He was officially...
A court in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday overturned a death sentence for an "apostate" poet who renounced the Muslim faith, giving him eight years in prison instead. The court quashed the previous court's ruling that poet Ashraf...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged African leaders to avoid using loopholes and undemocratic constitutional changes to "cling to power." In his address at the twenty-sixth African Union Summit in...
