Parties to the five-year-old conflict in Yemen have held hundreds of people at unofficial detention centres in circumstances that could amount to war crimes, a human rights organisation said on ...

GENEVA, Switzerland - The United Arab Emirates has defended its record on human rights at the United Nations in Geneva, with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash strongly denying ...

A UN working group on Monday said former Pakistan Premier Imran Khan's detention is arbitrary and in violation of international law, and should be released immediately. In an opinion, the UN Working ...

Bahraini authorities this week released opposition activist Zainab Al-Khawaja, who had been imprisoned with her infant son since March. She had been convicted of insulting the Bahraini king after she ...

The human rights campaigner Julian Assange has suffered arbitrary detention by the governments of Sweden and the UK, the HRC's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled today. Here we present the key ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your ...

On the tenth anniversary of the kidnapping of Swedish publisher and writer Gui Minhai, human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an English barrister and deputy chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.

The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF) has joined the calls for an end to the continuous detention of Alhaji Aminu Idris Yaro, the Sarkin Hausawa of Lagos, saying it is arbitrary and breach of his ...

Editor's note: Xinhua News Agency issued a report on Wednesday on the US' arbitrary detention at home and abroad. Following is the full text. II. Arbitrary detention of immigrants in the United States ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

China lashed out at Canada on Thursday for joining the U.S. and 56 other countries in endorsing a declaration denouncing state-sponsored arbitrary detention of foreign citizens for political purposes.