A Finnish rights activist plans to sue the UAE government in European courts over her ordeal during her time behind bars in the Persian Gulf country.

The UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial summary or arbitrary executions calls on Saudi officials to halt the imminent execution of two Bahraini men accused of trumped-up terrorism-related crimes.

Hamas has welcomed a report by a special UN commission about blatant Israeli violations against Palestinians, demanding that the Tel Aviv regime officials must be recognized as war criminals.

A US-based NGO has filed a complaint against Israeli Medical Association over its complicity in gross violations of human rights against Palestinians.

The report highlights deleterious effects of chronic overcrowding and poor living conditions in prisons across Britain.

Russia says its soldiers recently released as part of a prisoner swap with Ukraine were "beaten" and "tortured with electricity in captivity."

A group of UN human rights experts have called on Saudi authorities to immediately release a young man, who is on death row for crimes he allegedly committed as a minor and whose conviction followed a grossly unfair trial.

Senior Palestinian officials say the regime must be held accountable for arbitrary detentions of Palestinians.

A new book has come up with shocking details of the top American spy agency’s controversial torture program in the early years of the US so-called “war on terror”.

Saudi officials deport hundreds of Ethiopian migrant workers after keeping them for month under deplorable conditions in unsanitary detention centers and subjecting them to torture.