Australian officials on Monday said that a Hague-based international tribunal lacks jurisdiction to set a border between Australia and East Timor. East Timor invoked this "conciliation commission" in the hopes that it would put pressure on Australia to...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday upheld the death sentences of 16 civilians convicted of terror-related offenses by military courts. The appellants contended that their constitutional rights had been violated, as they were tried in secret, without...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) released statements Monday condemning Ukraine's use of secret facilities to detain individuals. The two groups released a joint report earlier this summer detailing the use...

Egyptian human rights lawyer Malek Adly was released from prison Sunday following a Saturday decision by an Egyptian court. Adly had been held in solitary confinement for more than 100 days without a formal charge, and his incarceration...

Venezuelan authorities on Saturday arrested a major opposition leader, Daniel Ceballos, stating that the arrest was to prevent his efforts at destabilizing the country . Ceballos, the former mayor of San Cristobal, was arrested in March 2014, accused of...

The Supreme Court of El Salvador on Saturday ordered the release of three ex-military officers who had been jailed for killing six Jesuit priests during the country's civil war. In 1989 a team of about...

An Argentine federal court concluded a human rights trial on Thursday against military officers during the dictatorship era. The court in Córdoba, Argentina, acquitted five defendants and sentenced 28 to life and 10 to between...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed , on Friday urged Iran to halt the execution of Alireza Madadpour and 11 other individuals convicted on drug related offenses. All 12...

France's highest administrative court, the Council of State on Friday overturned the ban on full-body "burkini" swimsuits in the French city of Cannes. The court held that imposing a...

United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon submitted a report issued together with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons yesterday detailing an in-depth investigation into chemical warfare used by ISIS and...