Human Rights

The U.K. has sanctioned Georgia’s prosecutor general and three other officials for allegedly enabling police violence...

Arrested journalists reappear in army gear, fueling concerns about the junta’s crackdown on press freedom in Burkina Faso.

Kyrgyzstan has pardoned investigative journalist Azamat Ishenbekov, who was serving a five-year sentence for allegedly...

Georgian prosecutors have launched a criminal probe into five civil society groups, freezing their bank accounts and...

Azerbaijan has intensified its crackdown on civil society, arresting NGO figures and targeting exiled activists and...

Authorities detained Duterte in Manila on an Interpol warrant issued after the International Criminal Tribunal indicted...

A young Ukrainian journalist believed in truth and justice. She was 27 when she died in a Russian prison while trying to...

Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court upheld prison sentences for two journalists accused of inciting mass unrest, a move condemned by...

Kyrgyzstan invited, then abruptly canceled—later calling it a postponement—a visit from the EU's Human Rights Subcommittee...

Georgian journalist jailed after protest, on hunger strike as EU and rights groups call for her immediate release.

In a chilling example of Russia’s political repression, Yury Dmitriev has been sent to solitary confinement, known as SHIZO,...

Azerbaijan intensifies its crackdown on independent media, targeting journalists and activists under contentious charges.