The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on Burkina Faso authorities on Friday to immediately release three journalists detained last month after videos surfaced on social media showing ...

A Thai student protester was arrested in Bangkok on Friday for calling Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing a “murderer” and criticizing the Thai government for supporting him during his attendance ...

The Iranian authorities are set to carry out finger amputation sentences against three prisoners as early as April 11, 2025. Amnesty International warned Friday that amputation sentences, amounting ...

Massachusetts state and local elected officials, including Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, joined Tufts University on Thursday in calls for the immediate release of doctoral student, Rumeysa ...

UN human rights experts on Friday called on Pakistan to stop displacing Afghans from the cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and further urged authorities not to deport individuals to Afghanistan.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged Argentine authorities to investigate security forces' 'excessive' use of force in quelling a protest led by pensioners advocating for greater access to ...

During the War on Terror, force drift was explained to me as the concept that increasing levels of force are seen to be reasonable and there is an almost unstoppable drifting toward the use of more ...