Singapore police officials on Friday announced the hanging death of Jabing Kho, hours after the High Court of Singapore denied his final appeal for clemency. Jabing was sentenced to death in 2010 for his...

US President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Friday that would remove terms such as "Negro" and "Oriental" from federal law in an effort to modernize racial language. The bill seeks not only to...

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey on Friday advanced an amendment to the constitution to strip members of parliament of their immunity privileges. The assembly voted on the measure with some 376 out of 550 members approving [Hurriyet...

Attorneys for Chelsea Manning, the former US military soldier who leaked secrets to WikiLeaks , on Thursday, filed a brief to appeal her 35-year prison term for violating the Espionage Act. Manning is asserting that...

The Oklahoma legislature approved a resolution Thursday asking Congress to impeach President Barack Obama over his administration's guidance on ensuring the protection and inclusion of transgender individuals in federal civil rights law. The legislators...

The Pentagon announced Friday that the Periodic Review Board (PRB) has cleared Afghani Guantanamo detainee Obaidullah for release after almost 15 years of detainment. Obaidullah was captured in November 2002 when...

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights , Nils Muiznieks, criticized prisons in Belgium Friday for their "rapidly deteriorat living conditions. This statement, posted to Facebook , comes during a three-week strike by prison workers throughout the...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Thursday ordered Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers appearing in multiple states to take ethics classes after finding DOJ lawyers...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled Thursday that Virginia's voter identification law is constitutional. The plaintiffs challenged SB 1256 , which requires that voters have a valid...

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday repeated its earlier request for the Mexican government to investigate human rights violations in Tlatlaya in Mexico State. Among the...