Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye appeared briefly in a civilian court as attorneys tried to secure his freedom, but a ...

Human rights organizations led by Amnesty International have announced a planned march to the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi and the National Assembly on Friday to present a petition demanding ...

Rights activists in Singapore and Malaysia will hold candlelight vigils to protest capital punishment as Singaporean authorities prepare to execute a Malaysian man for drug trafficking despite mountin ...

Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now. Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International For over a year, the ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s children are increasingly caught in the crossfire of gang violence and forced to carry ...

The bill is backed by right-wing senators and will be debated in the upper house of the French parliament. Its aim is to ban ...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden ...

Supporters celebrate the release of an Indigenous activist imprisoned for killing of FBI agents after a flawed trial.

Leonard Peltier left the prison Tuesday morning in an SUV, according to a prison official. He didn't stop to speak with reporters or his supporters outside the gates.

Leonard Peltier was released after former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence for the murder of two FBI agents during a ...