A Pakistani court on Tuesday suspended the execution of a civilian man sentenced to death by a military court after a legal challenge, the first of such challenges since the Pakistan Supreme Court allowed these hearings. The...

A new Municipal Court judge in Ferguson, Missouri, on Tuesday ordered sweeping reforms of courtroom practices following a damning federal report of racial bias. Judge Donald McCullin handed down an order to withdraw all arrest warrants issued...

Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Tuesday that the Maldives government had taken a step back by sending former president Mohammad Nasheed back to prison. Nasheed was sent back to jail...

A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced two Ukrainian activists to substantial jail time for the charge of conspiring to commit terror attacks. Oleg Sentsov, a filmmaker, and Aleksandr Kolchenko, an ecologist and antifascist activist, received...

California lawmakers on Monday approved two bills intended to regulate drones. The Assembly voted 43-11 in favor of a bill that would make it a crime to fly a drone over private property without permission. The Senate...

El Salvador's Supreme Court ruled Monday that the country's street gangs and those who support them financially will now be classified as terrorist groups. The ruling was made as part of a...

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday spoke against the execution of an Iraqi man and his two wives in the Kurdistan region. Human rights officials...

UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants François Crépeau on Tuesday urged the European Union (EU) to create a new human-rights-minded migration policy to empower migrants and solve the issue of human smuggling...

UN Humanitarian Coordinator and Deputy Special Representative for the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) Aurélien A. Agbénonci on Monday strongly condemned an August 20 attack...

Saudi Arabia's flawed judicial system has resulted a surge of executions following unfair trials, Amnesty International (AI) reported Tuesday. According to AI, 175 people have been executed over the past 12 months with an average...