Tag: Human Rights Watch

A Sharia court in Indonesia’s Aceh province has sentenced two men to be caned in public for having gay sex. ...

Ugandan troops deployed in eastern Central African Republic to fight Ugandan rebels have sexually abused local women and girls, Human ...

A group of refugees who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong are facing deportation after the city's authorities ...

China opens on Sunday a summit to promote its massive global trade infrastructure project, highlighting Beijing's ambitions to spearhead a ...

Eight Arab princesses are on trial in Brussels for trafficking and abusing servants during a stay there. Sheikha Hamda al-Nahyan ...

Eighty-two Nigerian schoolgirls who were released from Boko Haram captivity after more than three years face a wait to be ...

Two gay men who were caught having sex by a vigilante mob will be caned 80 times for breaking Sharia ...

Chen Guiqiu fled China on foot with her two daughters, only to end up in a Thai prison until US ...

Jakarta’s Christian governor has been sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy, a harsher-than-expected ruling critics fear will embolden ...

Jakarta's Christian governor was jailed for two years Tuesday after being found guilty of blasphemy, in a shock decision that ...

Forces loyal to Libya's military strongman Khalifa Haftar on Monday launched an offensive to oust jihadist from their last two ...

Countries across the world put the Philippines on notice over its deadly drug war on Monday, demanding an end to ...

Saudi women no longer need a man's consent to carry out certain activities, local media reported on Friday, but activists ...

A third Turkish national has been arrested in Malaysia, his lawyer said Friday, after two others were taken into custody ...

The beach looks ready for war: in the sparse lakeshore shade hundreds wait, sweaty from the heat, weapons at their ...

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who returned to Kabul Thursday after more than 20 years, is one of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords, chiefly ...

Two Turkish nationals who went missing in Malaysia have been arrested as a security threat, the police chief announced on ...

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned the "illegal" detention of two Israeli citizens by Hamas, releasing new details about the ...

Armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) have killed at least 45 civilians in apparent reprisal strikes over the ...

Syrian government forces used deadly nerve gas in Khan Sheikhun and in three other recent attacks, Human Rights Watch said ...