A Moroccan judge on Thursday ordered the release of Younis Chekkouri, a former Guantanamo detainee who had remained in custody for nearly five months despite diplomatic assurances that he would be freed after his transfer to the country...

UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Territories Makarim Wibisono urged Israel on Thursday to address its use of excessive force against Palestinians and to charge or release all administrative detainees. In a report to the UN Human...

Nearly 40 years after the 1979 Revolution in Iran, the nation's legal structures are still "deeply flawed," according to an 87-page report released Thursday by Amnesty International (AI) . Describing how the revolution elicited sweeping...

The French National Assembly on Wednesday approved a bill that would strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship rights. The amendment to the constitution would also grant the president greater power to act...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein , expressed "utmost alarm" Thursday at the worsening situation in Syria. Zeid said that warring parties were "constantly sinking to new depths," attacking women, children, the...

The Northern Ireland Assembly rejected proposed amendments to the region's strict abortion laws on Wednesday. The Assembly voted against a proposed amendment to the Justice Bill that would allow terminations in cases of sexual crime,...

Amnesty International USA (AI) alleges that Mustafa al-Hawsawi , one of the accused 9/11 ringleaders, is in desperate need of medical care in a letter to the Pentagon that was made public on Wednesday. In...

A German court on Thursday began the trial of a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. The accused, Reinhold Hanning, voluntarily joined the armed Schuzstaffel (SS) when he was 18 years old and was...

The prosecutor in the trial of Hissène Habré on Wednesday requested that the former Chadian leader be sentenced to life in prison if convicted. The sentencing recommendation was made by Senegal special prosecutor Mbacke Fall after his closing...

The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) on Wednesday called for the Central African Republic (CAR) to address numerous human rights violations stemming from an outbreak of violence in Bangui...