HUMAN RIGHTS

Artist and dissident claims he was never charged with any crime following 2011 detention.

Amnesty International claims that Israel fired 2,000 shells, missiles and bombs in just four days.

Rights groups warned Ethiopian journalists are imprisoned, sometimes tortured and not guaranteed a fair trial.

Abdul Basit became paralysed from the waist down after contracting tubercular meningitis in prison.

NGO Reprieve warns Pakistan has executed 180 people since it reinstated the death penalty in January 2015.

11% of the women surveyed said they were dismissed or treated so poorly they had to quit.

Iran has a dire record of jailing and executing political dissidents and Kurdish activists

The mother-of-five was convicted for insulting Prophet Muhammad in 2010.

Bill passed allowing Palestinian youths convicted of throwing stones at Israeli occupation forces a maximum 20 years in prison, even without proof of harmful intent in their actions.

Dozens of political prisoners remain in jail and the regime has not made any real democratic reform since 2011.

Children as young as 11 subject to beatings and coercive interrogations say Human Rights Watch.

The dictator has doubled the number of the country's workers who toil abroad, according to North Korean Watch.

World Sindhi congress warns of alleged human rights abuses committed against the Sindhi community in Pakistan.

Strict surveillance laws in China and Russia bypassed using cryptocurrency to communicate securely.

As the Iranian economy opens up the plight of communities such as the Bahá'í must not be forgotten.

So-called "Jail the Gays" bill imposes prison sentences of up to 14 years on those involved in homosexual unions.

Oscar winner Laura Poitras was detained more than 50 times at airports over a period of six years.

More than 3,000 people take part in New York's first Disability Pride parade.

ICC already issued arrest warrant for Mudacumura on nine counts of war crimes in eastern Congo

Prominent lawyers Wang Yu and Sui Muqing among those feared detained.

Over 100 Uighurs sent back from Thailand transported by airplane with black hoods over their heads.

Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has been chased out of a ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica.

The theme for United Nations World Population Day on 11 July 2015 is Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies

People have been waiting for and anticipating an 'imminent' pause since even before Ramadan

A graduate student has estimated the size of the Anonymous movement by tracking Facebook groups.

Serge Brammertz is prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

The defendants were convicted for their role in the killing of 1,700 soldiers at Camp Speicher in June 2014.

A court adjourned the case until 29 July after an opposition lawyer did not appear to argue the case.

IBTimes UK speaks with a top Israeli official and Palestinian NGO on the war and settlements.