The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a class action lawsuit Thursday accusing the Trump administration of violating the religious freedom of nationals from the seven nations named in President Donald Trump's immigration executive order...
Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, on Monday urged US President Donald Trump not to reinstate torture policies. Melzer referenced the 2014 US Senate Intelligence Committee Report , which stated that the...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court acquitted 112 individuals suspected of taking part in the 2013 burning of 150 Christian homes and two churches in the Lahore's Josep Colony. Ghulam Murtaza Chaudhry, the lawyer defending the suspects, stated that...
Military courts in Lebanon are trying civilians, including children, in matters regarding political activism and protest against the government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday. HRW said that 14 individuals who protested the 2015 waste...
The Slovenian parliament passed amendments to the Aliens Act to enact emergency measures to deny refugees entry into the country and to expel those whom did not have their asylum claims properly assessed on Wednesday. Amnesty International (AI)...
Pending Russian legislation may weaken the country's protections against domestic violence, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday. HRW is urging the Russian parliament to reject the legislation for the threat it posses...
Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) in Riyadh on Monday handed down a seven-year sentence to a Saudi citizen as well as numerous other punitive measures for a Twitter post the court deemed insulting to...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for "records pertaining to financial and other ethical conflicts of interest in connection with the presidential transition of President-Elect Donald...
Outgoing US President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 330 federal inmates on Thursday. A majority of the sentences commuted were for non-violent drug offenses. These most recent commutations were the most ever granted...
South Korea's special prosecutor is seeking a warrant to arrest Samsung Group's chief Jay Y. Lee after accusing Lee of bribing a friend of South Korea's President, Park Geun-hye . The special prosecutor's office...