HUMAN RIGHTS

FDC candidate Besigye has been arrested six times in ten days and is currently under house arrest.

The EU - Congo's largest donor - also condemns illegal government arrests and detentions.

EXCLUSIVE: Bauma tells IBTimes UK about the non-violent fight to secure democracy.

The Facebook CEO reprimanded his employees for altering Black Lives Matter slogan on the headquarters' wall.

Congolese voices are pressing the UN to change MONUSCO's mandate ahead of upcoming elections.

More than 80% of Israeli teenagers said that they had encountered anti-Semitic abuse online in 2015.

Iranian regime cracks down on drug trafficking and extremists in Sistan and Baluchestan region.

McGarry was visting the country seeking the release of a jailed Kurdish leader.

Government forces and ruling party treating suspected opponents with 'extreme cruelty and viciousness'.

Rebels FOREBU and RED-Tabara are behind targeted killings according to Human Rights Watch.

Six months later they still have not seen him after he travelled from Jordan to Sulingen in Saxony.

Amnesty International UK said 60% of human rights complaints were rejected by National Contact Point.

Sadeghi has spent seven months in solitary confinement ahead of his trial

Marlin claimed she was duped into joining the terror group.

LUCHA activists claim Court's decision is 'deliberate attempt to judge the activists in secret'.

Authorities knew Ahmed Mansour Qurani Sharara's name should not have been on list of 116 defendants in court.

Self-proclaimed former Islamic extremist also says 'sexual deprivation' forcing men to join terror groups.

Rights group says Tory government setting 'dangerous precedent' to other nations on human rights.

EXCLUSIVE: IBTimes UK speaks with NGO on pro-Biafran protests and Nnamdi Kanu's trial.

Rights group claims thousands face violence at the hands of governments and militant groups in 2015.

Manning has said encryption is a way for LGBT people to protect themselves against discrimination.

IBTimes UK asks opposition, human rights defenders and local residents their opinion on UN visit.

Ruling Frelimo army uses excuse of disarming Renamo militias to commit abuses, rights groups claim.

Phones 'distract' females from housework and their families, say patriarchal village councils.

A teacher told a female school student wearing a hijab to 'take that stupid thing off your head'.

Iranian, Afghan and 30 Saudis were arrested in 2013 in a trial that comes after countries severed diplomatic ties

Greece expects number of displaced people to soar as more refugees are left stranded between the countries.

SNP's Hannah Bardell and Labour's Nia Griffith are the latest MPs to announce that they are gay.

Research revealed only 3.9% of male sexual assault victims are confident enough to report the incident.