Human rights victims of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos' regime petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court on Monday to permanently block the government's plan to bury him in the "Heroes Cemetery." The petitioners assert that the burial for the...

UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, warned on Monday that the upcoming trial in Singapore of a teenage blogger is a sign of increased criminalization...

A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced three leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy protests who were convicted on charges related to their occupation of a government building. Joshua Wong and Alex Chow, prominent leaders of the Umbrella Revolution ,...

A group of independent UN human rights experts on Monday expressed concern over Bahrain's persecution of the Shia population. The experts said, "he intensified wave of arrests, detentions, summons, interrogations and criminal charges brought against numerous Shia religious...

Egypt's public prosecutor on Saturday issued an order for the arrest of 13 people accused of committing profiteering, forgery and embezzlement as part of a national wheat import scandal. Local suppliers have historically added wheat to their imported supplies...

Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement this weekend urging Bangladesh officials to immediately end the illegal detentions of two citizens. Ahmed Bin Quasem and Humman Qader Chowdhury...

A Nice court on Saturday upheld a ban on full-body swimsuits, known as burkinis, in the southern French city of Cannes. The city's mayor imposed the ban last month after authorities and surrounding residents criticized the full body...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday threw out a lawsuit by former Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad claiming he was tortured. The appeals court affirmed the district court in refusing...

The primary challenger to incumbent Zambian President Edgar Lungu , Hakainde Hichilema , on Saturday accused the country's electoral commission of colluding with the Patriotic Front (PF), the ruling party, to manipulate the results of...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Friday blocked the diversion of public funds from Planned Parenthood clinics across Ohio. Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and Planned Parenthood of...