Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have faced horrific abuses at sea, Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday, warning of the potential for another "sailing season" crisis. According to AI, many of the Rohingya have been rendered...

Following a landmark settlement allowing transgender inmates to receive sex-reassignment surgery , California prison officials on Tuesday announced the criteria inmates must meet to qualify for the surgery. Seeking to standardize the process, California prison officials...

A Saudi activist was sentenced to 10 years in prison and banned from traveling abroad for an additional 10 years, a human rights lawyer said Tuesday. Abdel-Karim al-Khadar, a professor of Islamic studies from Qassim who was arrested in...

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the execution of eight men until March, halting the state's attempt to resume executions in the state after a 10-year hiatus. In issuing its stay, the court overturned...

A Kurdish lawyer in Turkey will face trial at a later date for comments he made about the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), when he said the group was not a terrorist organization but a political movement. Tahir Elci was...

UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Mónica Pinto on Monday urged officials in Guinea-Bissau to implement measures aimed at increasing residents' access to justice throughout the nation. Pinto released the...

The European Court for Human Rights dismissed the claims of three students claiming their nearly two weeks of detention without charges violated their human rights. The three students were in the UK on student visas when they were...

Three former detainees filed a lawsuit Monday against the City of Chicago and a number of Chicago police officers for alleged abuse at an "off the books" detention center. The lawsuit alleges abuses at the Homan...

US Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates on Monday voiced the Obama's administration's support for the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 . The bipartisan legislation would reduce the prison sentences of some nonviolent drug...

Former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of war crimes he allegedly committed against prisoners of war in 1992. Prosecutors charged Oric in August for his alleged involvement in...