A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to be tried on a charge of criminal contempt. Judge Susan Bolton of the US District Court for the District of Arizona made the order after...

The Gambian government announced on Tuesday that it will be leaving the International Criminal Court (ICC) . During the televised statement, Information Minister Sheriff Bojang criticized the court for ignoring western atrocities , referring to the ICC as "an...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday released a report criticizing Turkey's emergency decrees have weakened human rights safeguards, resulting in at least 13 instances of abuse including sexual abuse, beatings and sleep deprivation. Hugh Williamson, Europe...

The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) on Monday called on all governments to make a concerted effort to fight against enforced disappearances. Noting the increasing prevalence of disappearances, Houria Es Slami ,...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday commuted the sentences of all death row inmates to life in prison. The last execution in Kenya took place in 1987, though there were 2,655 male and 92 female death row...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a report on Tuesday documenting the systemic discrimination of minorities in Myanmar and calling for concrete steps end these human rights violations....

A federal judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction blocking Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson from enforcing a ban against "ballot selfies" on election day. The state statute made the act of...

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Monday called on the US government to "abolish the mandatory detention of migrants, especially asylum seekers, from all countries." The working group stated that mandatory detention was a...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) acted reasonably when it proposed to list certain populations of bearded seals in Alaska as...

A Pennsylvania judge on Monday sentenced former attorney general Kathleen Kane to 10 to 23 months in jail after she was found guilty of perjury and abusing her position. Kane resigned from office in August...