Human rights activists from various international organizations in late December called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to end the country's persecution of LGBT Iranians in a letter citing various attacks and rights violations. The signatories of the...
Bytes for All (B4A) , a Pakistani human rights organization focusing on information and communication technologies, has filed suit with the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal (ITP) against the British government for its cable-tapping program, Tempora....
Thousands of UK criminal trial lawyers staged a half-day strike on Monday to protest planned government cuts to legal aid. The fee cuts, which would reduce their pay by as much as 30 percent , are part of...
The Islamabad Special Court trying former president Pervez Musharraf on Monday granted Musharraf an exemption from personal appearance due to health issues, but has instructed authorities at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC)...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged the Egyptian government to reverse its decision to label the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, calling the label politically driven. The declaration...
A federal judge for the US District Court for the District of Utah on Monday rejected a request from lawyers for the state of Utah to block same-sex marriages from occurring in the state. Over...
Two members of the feminist rock group Pussy Riot , Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, were released from prison on Monday after the Russian government's approval of sweeping new amnesty laws [414081-6, 414076-6, 414060-6, 414142-6...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that prosecutions for denying that the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was a genocide are an attack on freedom of expression....
Uruguay's Senate on Tuesday passed a measure to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. The bill, if signed into law by President Jose Mujica , will...
The Italian Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that portions of the country's electoral law breach its constitution . This decision overturns both a measure in the law that prevents...
