human rights

Human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in iran.

Manama accuses provocative social media of fomenting demonstrations with 'lies against Bahrain'.

French football legend and ex-Man United forward pledges support to prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 85 days.

Poland's Interior Minister Jacek Cichocki rejects media reports suggesting one football supporter has died after violent clashes between rival Russian and Polish fans prior to European Championship group match.

UN acknowledges uprising has reached scale of civil war, as Assad's forces try to recapture swathes of cities taken by rebel troops.

US warns that helicopters will escalate conflict dramatically on day of mortar deaths and Annan's fresh plea for support

Appeal adds another chapter to 18-month battle by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against alleged sex offences committed Sweden.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan ends decades of discrimination against Kurdish minority by allowing language to be taught to those who want it.

Anonymous claims metals trader Traxys ignoring its own guidelines not to buy from war zones as business in precious minerals goes on.

Equality and Human Rights Commission accuses police of racial profiling by using section 60 stop powers and questions low arrest rate achieved by it.

UN observers denied access to the town of Haffa by the Assad regime where there are fears of a new massacre.

Dozens of South Sudanese migrants have been detained ahead of their deportation, as part of Israeli clampdown on illegal migrants.

Violence continues in Syria, with fighting between the regime's forces and rebel defectors reported across the country.

Liberia seals border with Ivory Coast over fears of renewed violence after seven peacekeepers killed in cross-border ambush.

Anonymous dumps personal information from Intel website in protest against its mining activities in Congo.

Awá tribe makes desperate appeal to Brazilian government for a halt to illegal logging that is ravaging its territory.

Shocking video shows triumphant soldiers dragging and stacking corpses to burn them - while international condemnation goes on.

Outrage over a cartoon animation making fun of Shangaans and the Christian faith has led to a complaint being lodged with the Human Rights Commission.

United Nations monitors in Syria said they will renew attempts to access the site of the latest massacre in the village of al-Kubeir.

With his peace plan in tatters and reports of fresh slaughter in central province of Hama, peace envoy addresses UN in New York.

So British ministers will be boycotting England's three opening games at the Euro 2012 football tournament being jointly held by Ukraine and Poland?

Intisar Sharif Abdallah, a mother of three, sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Sudan.

Palestinian jailed footballer al-Sarsak facing death as he enters in his 80th day of hunger strike.

Anti-Bashar al-Assad activists say they have found more than 70 bodies and point to Syrian security forces and regime loyalists as the killers.

Dozens of protesters remain in Tahrir Square while others head to Alexandria for anniversary of death of Kahled Said.

Head of Bahrain Centre for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab re-arrested after tweeting comment critical of al-Khalifa ruling system.

Gunmen order workers off bus before robbing, shooting and mutilating them, say anti-regime forces.

Foreign secretary warns that military option in Syria is on the table amid warnings of 'catastrophic' civil war.

Deportation flights must be halted amid growing evidence of torture of returnees.

US Secretary of State accuses Moscow of propping up Bashar al-Assad regime and warns that situation will lead to civil war.