The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called for an independent investigation into the house fire that killed ...

South Korea's Busan District Court sentenced a man to 15 years in prison on Friday for attempting to murder Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung and for violating the Public Official Election Act, ...

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal (CA) refused on Friday to grant Jimmy Lai Chee Ying leave to appeal the lower court's decision that the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong ...

A New Brunswick judge ruled on Friday that the Anglophone East District Education Council does not have the legal standing to challenge changes to Policy 713, a gender identity policy made by the ...

Refugees and migrants face dangerous and violent conditions on routes across East and West Africa towards the Mediterranean Coast, according to a report released on Friday by the Office of the UN High ...

Amnesty International called Thursday for Houthi authorities in Yemen to immediately release detained staff from the UN and ...

Between stimulus and response there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response.  In our response lies our ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged allies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to 'break their silence' regarding the mass trial of ...

This dispatch was filed by a JURIST legal correspondent in Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons we cannot disclose ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday urged Algerian authorities to release two detained journalists, stating that the country must stop cracking down on press freedom. The two ...

Belarus, following the signing of the Law On Amnesty in Connection with the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Belarus ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Russian journalist and opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has been transferred to a prison ...