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Russia has passed a controversial law banning transvestites, transsexuals and people with other “disorders” from driving, prompting sharp criticism from rights activists, including a...
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Russia has passed a controversial law banning transvestites, transsexuals and people with other “disorders” from driving, prompting sharp criticism from rights activists, including a...
China arrested or prosecuted more than 2,300 people for political offences in 2013, the vast majority in secret, an advocacy group reported Thursday as...
Europe’s human rights court on Wednesday heard arguments on whether a man in a vegetative state should be taken off life support, in a...
Cuba has freed some of the 53 political prisoners identified on a US list as it moves towards normalizing ties with the United States,...
Performance artist Tania Bruguera, detained for trying to stage an open mic event in Cuba, resigned Monday from the artists’ union and returned an...
Guatemala’s ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt was hauled to court on a stretcher Monday to attend his retrial on genocide charges before proceedings were halted...
Lawyers for Guatemalan ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday he is too sick to attend court next week, when he faces a retrial for...
Kenya’s High Court suspended key parts of a controversial new national security law Friday that the opposition had warned risked turning the east African...
Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera, detained for trying to stage an open-mic show in Havana, says a government crackdown may actually have helped her...
A Cuban crackdown on dissident activists caused a new rift with the United States, the first diplomatic scuffle since this month’s historic announcement of...