Assad’s most-notorious death factory, the hangings had become routine. Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Saydnaya ...

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting ...

The missing activists, photo from a Guinean Facebook page.

Amnesty International condemned on Monday a surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in recent years, highlighting particular concern for capital punishment used in cases of drug-related offenses and the ...

A Decade of Silence in Itai Dzamara Disappearance ©AP Photo  Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Zimbabwean journalist and pro-democracy activist Itai Peace Dzamara, ...

Saudi Arabia witnessed a record surge in executions last year, with Amnesty International raising alarms over the high number ...

Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death.

The June 23 airstrikes on Evin prison, including the hospital ward, have turned it from a hated symbol of oppression into a ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is traveling Monday to Washington as Israel sends negotiators to Qatar amid ongoing talks ...

Human rights lawyer Ruth López, detained in El Salvador for alleged illicit enrichment, was moved to a harsher prison despite ...

In central Gaza, a boy stroked the face of his dead sister, 6-year-old Heba Abu Etiwi, in a morgue at Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital. The girl and another of her brothers were among eight people killed ...

Amnesty International Nigeria has strongly condemned the killing of at least 15 people by suspected Lakurawa insurgents in ...