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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has begun criminal investigations into US citizens connected to tax avoidance claims arising from the Panama Papers , media reported Tuesday. US Attorney for the Southern District of New York...

Several human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) on Monday urged the Gambian government to investigate the death of Solo Sandeng , a Gambian human rights activist, who died ...

A Gambian activist on Saturday died while in detention after being detained on Thursday following protesting. Many rights groups are now calling for an inquiry into how Solo Sandeng, the National Organizing Secretary of the opposition United...

A UN human rights expert on Friday called on the international community to put an end to financial secrecy in wake of the recent release of thousands of confidential financial documents known as the "Panama Papers" ....

World leaders and other high profile individuals are hiding billions in off-shore accounts, according to reports Sunday that cite confidential documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm. The documents, coined the "Panama Papers" by the International Consortium of...

Azeri human rights lawyer and advocate Intigam Aliyev was freed from jail on Monday. The Azerbaijan Supreme Court reduced his sentence from over seven years to a five year-probation period....

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , who alleged that Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash...

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta was indicted Thursday for forgery, complicity in tax evasion and money laundering. Four others were also indicted in the case , which will be sent to the High Court...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned the recent "crackdown" on dissent in Azerbaijan, denouncing the imprisonment of journalist and human rights activist Khadija Ismayilova . In particular, Zeid...

A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned an Azerbaijan court for the convictions of prominent human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus. The experts called the convictions "politically motivated and representative of the continuing...