UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Michel Forst on Thursday condemned the execution of Raramuri indigenous activist Isidro Baldenegro Lopez. Lopez was an environmental activist in Mexico who fought to for indigenous...

The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and international sanctions Idriss Jazairy on Thursday praised US President Barack Obama's recent decision to lift all US sanctions on Sudan. He noted that he decision acknowledges the...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), Cecilia Jimenez-Damary on Thursday sharply condemned bombings in Nigeria as a means of counter insurgency against Boko Haram. The bombings struck a...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Wednesday that the Department of Defense must release a cache of photos taken at Abu Ghraib and other sites in Iraq...

The European Commission (EC) on Thursday welcomed an agreement between Amazon and Apple to eliminate their exclusivity obligations with respect to the supply and distribution of audiobooks. These exclusivity rights required Apple to...

The Russian Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that Russia does not have to comply with a 2014 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) order to pay 1.9 billion Euros to former...

A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced Liao Yongyuan, the former general manager of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) , to 15 years for graft, finding corruption based on accepting bribes and holding large amounts of property with...

The Jordanian government arrested eight activists last week, charging them with "insulting the King" and "incitement to spread chaos to undermine the political regime of Jordan using social media" as late as Tuesday. Those arrested include retired,...

The Romanian justice ministry on Wednesday published a draft of a plan to lower prison overcrowding that involves pardons for thousands of prisoners , but the plan was met with protests around the country. Prime Minister Sorin...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday refused to intervene to overturn a Defense Department decision to continue the detention of Algerian prisoner Sufyian Barhoumi . Responding...