It is the latest batch of detainees freed since the US seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a raid.

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief urged the Trump administration on Friday to ...

Opiyo has also represented Ugandan opposition politician Bobi Wine, who, despite previously being arrested and charged with treason in 2018, challenged the 81-year-old incumbent President Yoweri ...

The human rights organization's report listed 12 "alarm bells" of the administration’s practices a year since Donald Trump ...

A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted a human rights activist and lawyer, Imaan Mazari and her husband on charges of ...

Iran’s ambassador to India, Mohammad Fathali, publicly thanked New Delhi for its vote against the resolution in Geneva ...

Rights groups claim thousands of people, including bystanders, were killed during the unrest, which they describe as the ...

A US-based rights group said Monday it had confirmed the deaths of 5,848 people in a wave of protests in Iran suppressed by security forces, warning that it was still investigating thousands more ...

By Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on Friday to discuss the "alarming violence" used in Iran against ...

Iranian prosecutor denies Trump's threats prevented mass executions; standoff over inspections of nuclear sites continues, ...

Javid Khales, a young Iranian soldier, has been sentenced to death for refusing orders to shoot protesters during the ...

A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced two human rights lawyers to 17 years in prison each over social media posts the ...