Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt agreed Friday to suspend all executions until his office has completed an investigation into the use of a wrong lethal injection drug during an execution last January. Pruitt...

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has accused the Taliban of Human rights abuses during the battle in Kunduz earlier this month. According to AIHRC at least 50 civilians were killed and...

UN human rights experts on Friday condemned Iran's execution of a juvenile offender convicted of murdering her husband whom she was forced to marry at the age of 16. Fatemeh Salbehi was executed on Tuesday despite several...

The leader of last month's attempted military coup in Burkina Faso, General Gilbert Diendere, was charged Friday with crimes against humanity. Prosecutor Col. Sita Sangare, Burkina Faso's director of military justice said that he has charged 23 people [Reuters...

Five Ethiopian bloggers on Friday were acquitted of terrorism charges relating to publications on their website . The publications, critical of the government, landed nine bloggers in jail, and one charged in absentia, in April 2014, for...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that Google's efforts to digitize millions of books for an online library is permissible fair use. Google has scanned more than 20...

Amnesty International (AI) on Friday called for a halt to the "escalating campaign" against human rights activists taking place in Venezuela. According to human rights groups, the government has employed tactics intended to discredit...

Maine's revised concealed carry law went into effect Thursday and allows legal gun owners to carry concealed weapons without a permit. The law was passed by the Maine State Legislature and approved by Governor...

The Supreme Court of India ruled Thursday that a new law intended to change the structure of judicial appointments is unconstitutional. Traditionally the Indian judiciary was appointed by a 20-year-old collegium of five senior judges,...

The Superior Court of Maricopa County on Thursday struck down a 2012 Arizona law that mandated abortion pills be regulated according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as violating the state constitution. The law...