Prominent activist Sihem Bensedrine has intensified her effort to gain release after six months in detention. Observers say the human rights situation in Tunisia has dramatically deteriorated under ...

Jagjit Singh Dallewal has reinforced how a fast unto death can serve as a warning and an appeal to the public and the ...

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy visits Cairo on Thursday to press local officials to release a jailed British-Egyptian ...

After 115 days without food, activist and mathematics professor Laila Soueif speaks about her British-Egyptian son's ongoing ...

I've been on hunger strike for over 100 days because I cannot allow my son to continue languishing in prison' - Laila Souief'The Foreign Secretary has said Alaa's case is a "number one" issue for his ...

Francis George expressed full support for the Central Waqf Act in Parliament, stating that both as a people's representative ...

Private prison company GEO Group has been accused by the National Labor Relations Board of retaliating against immigrant ...

International pressure is mounting on Thailand – including from the new US administration – over the fate of dozens of Uyghur ...

Forty-eight Uyghurs detained in Thailand for nearly 11 years are on hunger strike to protest against imminent deportation to ...

World-acclaimed gems explorer and human rights activist Yianni Melas has been budded the modern-day Indiana Jones of gems.

On Sunday, researcher Nyrola Elimä reported that authorities in Thailand’s immigration detention center have separated 48 Uyghurs from other prisoners and prepared the former group for possible ...

Peter Greste, who was jailed for 400 days in Egypt, has joined Abd el-Fattah's mother in going on a hunger strike for the ...