Imprisoned Zimbabwe human rights activist and head of Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) Jestina Mukoko has allegedly been tortured and forced by prison officials to ingest drugs, according to a report in...
A Zimbabwe judge ruled Friday that Zimbabwe Peace Project leader Jestina Mukoko and 31 other activists charged with plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe must...
Human rights group Amnesty International USA on Friday accused the US of insufficiently responding to the Gaza crisis in a letter sent to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice . The letter claimed...
A Russian government commission is examining the legality of the Soviet Union's pre-World War II artwork sales, an official from the State Hermitage Museum said on Tuesday. Museum director Mikhail Piotrovsky said in his St. Petersburg state-of-the-museum...
The European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled Thursday that the British practice of keeping the fingerprints and DNA profiles of people arrested but not convicted of crimes was against privacy rights and should not...
A Myanmar court on Friday sentenced two reporters to seven years imprisonment for allegedly undercutting the country's military junta by possessing reports deemed seditious. Thet Zin and Sein Win Maung were found in February with a copy of a...
A Malaysian labor activist jailed for alleging police brutality against illegal immigrants in detention was acquitted by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Monday. Irene Fernandez , the director and cofounder...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has vacated a district court judge's contempt order against former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in connection with...
French police on Monday arrested alleged leader of the Basque separatist group ETA Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina near the country's border with Spain. Aspiazu Rubina is suspected of leading the group's armed...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern Wednesday about the lengthy and "severe" prison sentences recently issued by a Myanmar court against pro-democracy demonstrators. He called for the country's military junta to release...
