Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s cabinet voted Tuesday to deport to the United Arab Emirates an Egyptian activist and poet detained by ...

Coverage of Syria’s prisons overlooks their decades-long use as key destinations for extraordinary rendition, where terror ...

Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs. How we love to free-associate about ...

No one should put any trust in the court system to stop the U.S. government from using tax dollars for war. But suing members ...

Authorities in Angola released Tiktoker Neth Nahara, who is featured in this year's Write for Rights campaign, along with ...

Five critics of Angola’s President Joao Lourenco have been freed after more than a year in detention, including a prominent TikToker, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Iran executed a record 1,000 people in 2024, almost 70 per cent of them after its new “reformist” president took office.

Negotiators have made little progress towards an enduring ceasefire over a year into deadly conflict and humanitarian crisis, ...

Saudi Arabia has put six Iranians to death for drug trafficking, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after a year in which ...

Amnesty Israel denies claims that it is conducting itself in a racist manner towards Palestinians, a reason given by the ...

On 5 January 2025, DRC’s Justice Minister Constant Mutamba announced that more than 170 people, allegedly linked to criminal ...