The leader of last month's attempted military coup in Burkina Faso, General Gilbert Diendere, was charged Friday with crimes against humanity. Prosecutor Col. Sita Sangare, Burkina Faso's director of military justice said that he has charged 23 people [Reuters...

Five Ethiopian bloggers on Friday were acquitted of terrorism charges relating to publications on their website . The publications, critical of the government, landed nine bloggers in jail, and one charged in absentia, in April 2014, for...

Amnesty International (AI) on Friday called for a halt to the "escalating campaign" against human rights activists taking place in Venezuela. According to human rights groups, the government has employed tactics intended to discredit...

The Supreme Court of India ruled Thursday that a new law intended to change the structure of judicial appointments is unconstitutional. Traditionally the Indian judiciary was appointed by a 20-year-old collegium of five senior judges,...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association on Thursday cautioned Kazakhstan that its new bill amending the law on non-profit organizations may be detrimental to the existence of such groups...

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Switzerland was wrong to prosecute former Turkish politician Doğu Perinçek for denying that the mass killings of Armenians under...

Death row inmates in Indonesia have been denied the right to counsel, beaten and coerced into confessions, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report published Thursday. The country has executed 14 prisoners since President Joko...

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced on Wednesday the government has begun the process of drafting a new constitution. According to Bachelet the new constitution is necessary because the current version was...

Myanmar President Thein Sein signed a nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) with eight armed rebel groups on Thursday in an effort to establish peace in Myanmar. The agreement is a move towards incorporating rebel groups into the...

The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova stripped former prime minister Filat Vladimir of immunity on Thursday and later detained him on suspicion of involvement in a 2014 bank fraud scheme. The allegations suggest...