Human Rights Watch

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerians will on Feb. 16 choose between two septuagenarians to lead Africa’s largest democracy: Nigeria’s President Muhammadu…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The halls of the former prison in the heart of Iran’s capital now are hushed, befitting…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain’s government has submitted documents for the extradition of Hakeem Al Araibi, a Bahraini refugee footballer held…

China’s first “cyber-dissident”, whose website reported on sensitive topics including human rights, is expected to go on trial on Monday…

BZEIBIZ, Iraq (AP) — It was a cold and gusty day in December when the army came to the Bzeibiz…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — While Sheikh Hasina is set to begin her third consecutive term as Bangladesh’s prime minister following…

JINAN, China (AP) — Cui Haoxin is too young to remember the days of his Hui people’s oppression under China’s…

  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian workers have exhumed more than 500 bodies from one of the largest mass graves near…

Three leading Hong Kong democracy campaigners pleaded not guilty on Monday to public nuisance charges over their involvement in massive…

The Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, ordered the formation of the Higher Permanent Committee for Human Rights, which…