Human Rights Watch

Critics of Malaysia’s fake-news law say the new legislation is meant to silence news surrounding the prime minister’s...

Indonesian lawmakers have come under fire for quietly passing a law that protects them from criticism and prosecution and...

By Haroon Janjua A court in Dhaka sent on Thursday the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and opposition leader to prison...

Lithuanian Parliament unanimously passed on Thursday a version of the Magnitsky Act—legislation that allows sanctions to be...

Tajikistan’s Supreme Court jailed at least nine former top anti-corruption officials in the largest and most high-profile...

A Bangkok court convicted 62 people Wednesday of offenses including organized transnational crime and forcible detention...

The Tunisian government continued its anti-corruption campaign Friday, announcing the confiscation of property belonging to...

Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist, Afgan Mukhtarli,was kidnappedMondayevening inTbilisi, Georgia,and...

Tajikistan has launched an "unrelenting assault" on lawyers by harassing, prosecuting and imprisoning those who...

A Kazakh journalist and civic activist was stabbed in the stomach on an overnight trainSundaybefore he was due to meet with...

Khadija Ismayilova began her video conference to a room of parliamentarians in Brussels by apologizing to the people of her...

Montenegrin journalist Jovo Martinovic pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of working with a drug trafficking ring, in...