Law & Society

Hong Kong police have been pushed and pulled in all directions during weeks of pro-democracy street protests, obeying orders to clear protest sites, allow protest sites to stay put, push back demonstrators and protect them from attack.

Reports of anti-Muslim harassment in Canada have risen, Muslim organizations say, after attacks last week in which two soldiers were killed by people authorities say were inspired by the militant group Islamic State.

A Bangladesh war crimes court convicted an Islamist party leader on Sunday of atrocities during the country's war of independence from Pakistan more than four decades ago and sentenced him to death