UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan E. Méndez on Thursday called on the Mauritanian authorities to protect suspects and detainees from abuse and torture while being held in the country. The call to implement already existing...

French police have discriminated against Muslims residing in France under the state of emergency law imposed in November according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday. The state...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the decision of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia , holding Monday that a Somali torture claim lacked a "sufficient nexus"...

Chinese courts convicted 14 government officials and company executives on Wednesday due to their involvement in a 2014 factory explosion that killed 146 workers because of inappropriately stored chemicals. The sentences , for the crime of causing a major...

The German Cabinet approved new asylum laws on Wednesday in response to the hundreds of thousands of refugees that have entered the country since the beginning of 2015. The bill will speed up asylum...

The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the execution of Cary Michael Lambrix amid growing concern about the constitutionality of Florida's death penalty scheme. The stay comes after the US Supreme Court ...

The US House of Representatives failed Tuesday to garner enough votes to override the president's veto of the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 , the most recent legislative effort to repeal the Affordable...

The US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan on Tuesday announced that the FBI will join a criminal investigation into the contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan. The FBI will join a multi-agency...

The High Court of Australia ruled Wednesday that the country's offshore detention policy for asylum seekers is legal, rejecting a challenge that it violates the Australian constitution. The challenge was brought by lawyers for a female Bangladeshi...

An Egyptian appeals court on Wednesday overturned death sentences for 149 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood accused of executing an attack on a police station near Cairo in 2013. Last year an Egyptian court sentenced the defendants to death...