Human Rights

Myanmar’s parliament has elected an ally of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi as president. Htin Kyaw abruptly resigned…

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition has named a chairman set to become the country’s new prime minister amid the latest state of…

Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) defended in a statement released on Sunday the Egyptian authorities’ recent decision to deport British…

Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei, a prominent Bahraini rights campaigner exiled in Britain, said on Saturday a Bahraini court had sentenced his…

Carrying their light arms, hundreds of defeated rebels began evacuating with their families Thursday from a devastated town in eastern…

Palestinian teenage protest icon Ahed Tamimi on Wednesday was sentenced to eight months in prison for slapping and kicking a…

Saudi Arabia’s religiously conservative rules constraining the actions and attire of women are showing signs of possibly relaxing. In an…

Mohamed Bahaa Abu Shaqa, spokesperson of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s electoral campaign, said that Egypt did not ban other candidates from…

Member of the Egyptian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Tarek El Kholy told local media that a recent request by British…

Sahin Alpay, a journalist for the now defunct Zaman daily, walked out of a Turkish jail on Saturday morning after…