Human Rights Watch and the Middle East Democracy Centre raised alarm on Monday over the increasing use of the death penalty to crush peaceful dissent without due process in Saudi Arabia this year.

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Mary Lawlor on Monday called on the Chinese authorities to maintain the rights of human rights defenders who have been imprisoned. Lawlor said she was ...

US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in New York rejected on Monday the Trump administration's request to unseal grand jury materials from the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case. The court took ...

From defending detainees held at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba—many of whom were subjected to secret detention and torture by US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials—to ...

Five Al Jazeera staff correspondents were reportedly killed late Sunday in a targeted Israeli strike on a press tent outside Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital. The reported strike killed journalists ...

A Ugandan judge on Friday denied bail to opposition figure Kizza Besigye, jailed for nearly nine months on treason charges, ruled that the constitutionally mandated 180-day remand had not reached ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday placing Washington DC's police force under federal control, invoking emergency powers that face potential constitutional challenges over ...