Human Rights

World 04/26/19, 11:13

Security forces beat and sexually assaulted Hend Nafea during clashes in 2011 in Cairo's Tahrir Square, but she’s still fighting for change

World 04/19/19, 03:38

Zimbabweans affected by Gukurahundi in the 1980s say talk, reburials not enough, want compensation

World 04/14/19, 09:10

Human rights spokeswoman says, based on previous experience in Libya, UN agencies fear refugees and migrants in detention may be used as human shields or forcefully recruited to fight

World 04/11/19, 00:07

No details given as demonstrators continue sit-in in front of Sudanese military headquarters demanding President Omar al-Bashir's resignation

World 04/10/19, 11:08

Buddhist woman, Meliana, 44, was convicted of blasphemy for requesting that mosque near her residence in Tanjung Balai, North Sumatra, turn down volume of its evening call-to-prayer

China 04/09/19, 04:30

Xu Zhangrun is one of nearly 40 academics in China silenced in recent weeks and months

World 04/06/19, 21:17

Ciham Ali Abdu has been detained in Eritrea for more than six years

World 04/05/19, 11:36

Myanmar's military reportedly is again carrying out attacks against its own civilians; offensive may constitute war crimes, UN official says

China 04/05/19, 10:44

Opponents, including politicians and business groups, say new bill allowing extradition on a ‘case by case’ basis will damage city’s reputation, rule of law

World 04/04/19, 18:10

US representatives, the US ambassador for international religious freedom and activists called for addressing mass detention of the Muslims in Xinjiang and other human rights violations of the Uighurs

World 04/01/19, 09:35

People would be executed for offenses such as rape, adultery, homosexual relations, robbery and insult to the Prophet Mohammed under the new code

World 03/30/19, 07:20

UN experts express alarm over dramatic spike in crackdowns against human rights defenders

World 03/28/19, 20:41

Washington spotlights China’s crackdown on people of faith including detention of 1 million Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang

World 03/26/19, 11:04

Reuters reporters were arrested and sentenced to seven years after investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims

World 03/24/19, 03:25

Analysts say issue of human rights will not hinder Prabowo Subianto’s electability

Opinion 03/21/19, 15:36

“China is finally being forced to confront an American president who is willing to use all the tools of national influence to impose costs for Chinese aggression,” former Senator Jim Talent from Missouri wrote on Fox News. “Under President Trump, the United States has finally recognized the comprehensiveness of the challenge ...

U.S. 03/19/19, 22:05

Amnesty International claims US has killed 14 civilians in 5 airstrikes since 2017

China 03/19/19, 11:10

Report aims to justify what Beijing calls anti-terrorism and de-radicalization efforts in heavily Muslim western region

Europe 03/18/19, 14:59

A court in Russia's province of Chechnya on Monday sentenced a prominent rights activist to four years imprisonment on drug charges widely seen as an effort by authorities to stifle a critical voice.The court in the Chechen town of Shali found Oyub Titiyev guilty of drug possession and sent him ...

China 03/18/19, 02:19

China has arrested nearly 13,000 people it describes as terrorists and has broken up hundreds of "terrorist gangs" in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said in a report Monday issued to counter international criticism of its system of internment camps and other oppressive security in the traditionally Islamic region. The lengthy ...