Human Rights Watch : Lawyer Herald

US State Department: Arbitrary detention of human rights lawyers, activist increase in China in 2015

The U.S. State Department's annual human rights report indicates that arbitrary detention of human r...

Apr 14, 2016 03:03 AM EDT

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a proposed law setting rules for creating and running trade unions...

Apr 05, 2016 05:17 AM EDT

The Russian court has recently ruled on shutting down of human rights group Agora. The court alleged...

Feb 23, 2016 06:14 AM EST

Parliament member Martin Fayulu was arrested and later released two days before a planned anti-gover...

Feb 15, 2016 04:48 AM EST

Sri Lanka's new government said on Monday it was setting up a South Africa-style truth and reconcili...

Sep 15, 2015 02:23 AM EDT

A government militia in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region has been guilty of killings and mass rap...

Sep 10, 2015 01:58 AM EDT

Mexico's official account of the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year does not a...

Sep 06, 2015 08:55 PM EDT

The sons of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak were released from prison on Monday, security o...

Jan 27, 2015 07:33 AM EST

Guatemala's Supreme Court on Monday began a retrial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt for genocid...

Jan 05, 2015 10:48 PM EST

Pakistan hanged four Islamist militants on Sunday in the second set of executions since the governme...

Dec 21, 2014 10:25 AM EST

A "truth commission" investigating abuses during Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship called for the prosec...

Dec 10, 2014 07:37 PM EST

More than 20 Chadian security agents appeared in a special court charged with murder and torture on ...

Nov 14, 2014 09:02 PM EST

Immediately after his sword falls, the Saudi Arabian executioner steps backwards to avoid soiling hi...

Oct 20, 2014 11:19 AM EDT

China has detained a prominent scholar who helped blind dissident Chen Guangcheng flee to the United...

Oct 13, 2014 07:07 AM EDT

A former bodyguard of Rwanda's Paul Kagame was sentenced to life on Friday for plotting to kill the ...

Oct 05, 2014 04:05 AM EDT