Syrian authorities have systematically tortured citizens held in detention, Amnesty International (AI) reported Tuesday. The report, entitled, "'I wanted to die' Syria's torture survivors speak out," catalogs testimony from Syrian civilians who have allegedly survived...
A three-judge panel in Guatemala on Monday sentenced a former military official to 6,060 years in prison for his role in a 1982 massacre in which 201 people were killed. The judges sentenced Pedro Pimentel Rios, a former special...
An independent UN human rights expert on Monday called on the government of Myanmar to ensure that human rights are protected . Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights...
An independent UN expert announced on Friday that proposed changes to a Swiss law that imposes heavy fines for people who protest without prior governmental authorization would "unduly restrict the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and...
A Wisconsin circuit court judge will rule on Monday whether to issue a permanent injunction to block Wisconsin's voter identification law, Wisconsin Act 23 . Dane County Circuit Court Judge Richard Niess's ruling will come on...
Former al Qaeda military commander Saif al-Adel was arrested at an airport in Cairo on Tuesday, according to the Egyptian media. Egyptian security officials detained al-Adel upon his arrival after noticing...
Iran executed twice as many people in 2011 as it did in the previous year, Amnesty International (AI) reported Tuesday. The report, entitled "'We Are Ordered to Crush You': Expanding Repression of Dissent in Iran,"...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) sent a letter to US officials Tuesday urging an investigation into the crackdown against protesters by forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh [official website, in...
A panel of experts representing the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday denounced the arrest of 16 people by Syrian forces last Thursday, calling for their...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Nebraska on Monday struck down a provision in Fremont, Nebraska law that denies housing permits to illegal immigrants, saying the ordinance violates federal law....
