#torture

China has installed a silent alarm system inside every house in a border town as part of its strengthened crackdown on ...

At least 51 militants and four soldiers have been killed in air strikes and clashes with Pakistani security forces in ...

Italy said Wednesday it was closing its embassy in Damascus and repatriating some staff to protest Syria`s ...

Russia and China, who twice blocked UN resolutions to condemn ally Syria, were Monday stepping efforts to find a ...

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Friday demanded unconditional humanitarian access to Syrian cities, saying there were ...

A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse alleging he was responsible for ...

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International urged China Wednesday not to repatriate North Korean refugees, joining ...

Malaysia on Monday defended its deportation of a Saudi journalist wanted at home for comments deemed insulting to the ...

Syria is ready to let Arab monitors extend their mission beyond this week, an Arab League source said, but U.S. ...

Police have denied allegations that two teenagers - Faisal Akbar (14) and Budri M Zain (18.

Amnesty International has urged the Indonesian government to provide protection for hundreds of Shiites who have been ...

Human rights activists, some dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, protested in front of the White House Monday to ...

The number of people killed in Syria following a crackdown on protesters since March has reached at least 4,000, the ...

President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla who was jailed and tortured during Brazil`s military ...

A poet and academic from Russia`s volatile region of Chechnya was found dead on Wednesday outside a Moscow apartment ...