Human Rights Watch warns that Saudi authorities are increasingly using capital punishment to silence dissent, pointing to recent cases such as the execution of a journalist arrested in 2018 for ...

Bangladesh’s ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her children face corruption charges over disputed land deals as ...

President of the Philippines, responsible for more than 1,000 extrajudical killings, endorsing vigilantism and systematic violations of human rights.

The High Council of Justice initiated disciplinary action against Judge Volodymyr Keleberda, who previously sided with Ihor ...

Kyiv confirms anti-corruption investigator Oleksandr Tsyvinsky as head of the Economic Security Bureau after international ...

Kyrgyzstan’s new media law hands sweeping control to the government, raising fears of censorship and shrinking space for ...

The Lebanese army killed three of the country’s “most dangerous” drug traffickers in an armed clash Wednesday in the eastern ...

Three deaths in Tunisian prisons within a single week in July have raised alarm among rights groups over prison conditions ...

Ukrainian investigators say an organized group manipulated tenders and laundered money at Kharkivoblenergo, a state-owned ...

Foreign embassies and media advocates condemned Mzia Amaghlobeli’s sentencing, after a Georgian court jailed the veteran journalist.

President Zelensky reverses a controversial law undermining anti-corruption agencies, but leaves a key clause intact, raising ...

Mexican police have discovered a hidden mass grave containing 32 bodies on an abandoned property in Guanajuato state, central ...