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

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

Philippe Sands, one of the world’s pre-eminent human rights attorneys, grew up in the shadow of bleak times. He worries that ...

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

Many in Iran are gaining brief and unexplained windows of online connectivity, offering a widening glimpse of the extent of ...

Iranian state TV has issued the first official death toll from recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed, while the ...

European activists explain their stance against U.S. immigration laws. “We support human rights, and the U.S. is breaking them,” they say, emphasizing the moral argument behind their protest. This ...

The Baloch Yakjehti Committee accused Pakistan of a systematic campaign of genocide against Baloch people, alleging killings, ...

Former UN prosecutor and Iranian-Canadian lawyer Payam Akhavan called for a “Nuremberg movement” during the meeting, ...

By Olivia Le Poidevin and Emma Farge GENEVA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session ...

The scale of nationwide protests in Iran and the bloody crackdown that has followed is slowly coming into focus, even though ...