An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced six people, including three journalists, to death for allegedly leaking state secrets to Qatar. The three journalists were tried in absentia and will have the ability to appeal the ruling. However, a...

An eight-member jury in Wichita, Kansas, found Friday that an anti-abortion activist did not intend to threaten a doctor in 2011 with a letter mentioning the possibility of someone placing a bomb under the doctor's car. The US Department of...

Death row prisoners in India are facing inhumane treatment , according to a two-part report released Friday by the Death Penalty Research Project at the National Law University in Delhi . The...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously upheld an Arizona commission's decisions regarding the redistricting of voting districts in the state. The claim from Republicans in the state was that the reapportionment of votes resulted in a...

David Leyton, a prosecutor in Genesee County, Michigan, announced Wednesday that a Michigan judge will allow criminal charges against three people involved in the water crisis in Flint, including the man who supervised the treatment plan as well...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday affirmed a settlement agreement concerning the National Football League (NFL) and payouts to retired players with certain medical conditions . The settlement,...

A UN rights expert on Tuesday released a expressed concern over the state of media independence and the public right of access to information in Japan, citing laws and personal stories that are making these more difficult than recommended...

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari from an appeal by three book authors and their advocacy group, the Authors Guild , claiming Google was violating copyright law...

New data from a South Korean think-tank shows that despite minor progress in certain areas, UN efforts at improving human rights in North Korea have not led to real improvement. The Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB) [official...

A Serbian rights group, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) , announced Tuesday that it will be appealing a fine imposed by the First Basic Court in Belgrade to compensate the Serbian Army Chief of General...