Slim Chiboub, son-in-law of former Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison for gun possession. Chiboub fled the country during the revolution, and has since been...

Approximately 36 million people in the world live in a form of modern slavery, the Global Slavery Index (GSI) reported Monday. For the purposes of the study, GSI defines modern slavery as involving "one person...

Top UN officials on Tuesday warned the world of the growing crisis of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and urged the international community to take action in helping the Iraqi government transition towards...

A US military lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay detainee argued Monday that the detainee, who is described as an al Qaeda commander, may be classified as a soldier according to international war rules and thus exempt from prosecution. The...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday released a report which accuses police officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of executing 51 youths and causing the disappearance of 33 others. The police action was...

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) on Tuesday released a study pointing to at least 12 violations of 12 articles of Egypt's constitution , which passed in January of this year. ANHRI alleges that...

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process on Tuesday strongly condemned the attack on a synagogue in West Jerusalem. The Special Coordinator, Robert Serry, called on all sides to do everything possible...

An independent UN human rights expert said Tuesday that Cambodia's government is manipulating the judiciary to silence opposition . The Special Rapporteur in Cambodia , Surya Subedi, emphasized recent arrests followed by mass...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Monday that Russian occupation in Crimea has led to serious human rights violations . In the 37-page report , titled "Rights in Retreat: Abuses in Crimea," HRW documented...

An Egyptian court on Monday referred five students from Al-Azhar University to a military trial over a violent protest in January when part of a campus building was torched. The referral took place under a...