Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Saudi Arabia to dismiss a criminal case escalated last week to a senior Saudi court on apostasy charges. Website editor Raif Badawi, 30, was originally charged...

More than 20 civilians, including eight children, were killed in Syria's northern province of al-Raqqa, according to a video posted Wednesday by activists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported ...

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied Hobby Lobby, Inc.'s application for injunction which would have prevented enforcement of the provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text;...

Bahraini defense lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi announced that the High Criminal Court of Appeals on Wednesday commuted death sentences for two male protesters to life imprisonment. The men were sentenced for their role in Bahrain's 2011's...

Russia's upper house of parliament the Council of Federation by a vote of 143 to 0 backed a bill on Wednesday prohibiting the adoption of Russian children by American parents. The bill called the Yakovlev initiative [Telegraph...

President Mohammed Morsi signed Egypt's new constitution into law late Tuesday, which was supported by over 63 percent of those who voted in the referendum. However, only 32.9% of Egypt's total of 52 million voters...

A judge for the Superior Court of Fulton County granted a temporary injunction on a law banning doctors from providing abortions for women pregnant beyond 20 weeks. The law in question was Georgia House Bill 954,...

Georgian Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili announced Tuesday that the former justice minister in Georgia, Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili, is set to be charged on December 26 in connection with the torture of prisoners in the country's capital of Tbilisi....

The UN General Assembly voted Monday to re-enter negotiations over an international treaty for the global sale of arms, a 70 billion dollar industry. The General Assembly adopted an arms treaty with 133 votes in...

The Human Rights Ombudsman in Russia, Vladimir Lukin , filed an appeal in a Moscow court on Tuesday following the ruling against Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the former CEO of Yukos, and his business...