A Norwegian human rights foundation gave its annual prize on Thursday to jailed Cuban dissident leader Luis Manuel Otero ...

To mark the second anniversary of the protests against the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, 34 women have gone on hunger ...

Unknown attackers on September 16 threw a Molotov cocktail at the house of Dmitry Tyulenev, the father of popular self-exiled ...

Siamak Namazi, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was arbitrarily arrested while visiting his native country of Iran for a memorial service in 2015. Subsequently sentenced to 10 years in prison for ...

In Tunisia, the situation regarding freedoms and democracy has deteriorated to the point of a near-complete return to ...

Norway's Rafto Prize, honouring human rights champions, was on Thursday awarded to imprisoned Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, "for his fearless opposition to authoritarianism through art." ...

Among the renowned activists are the two Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winners Shirin Ebadi and Narges Mohammadi, who is imprisoned in Tehran. Thousands arrested in the course of the protests Under the ...

CBC's Paul Hunter, who took a photo that helped investigators as they tried to pinpoint when the famed portrait was stolen, ...

In a message to the nation, Prof Yunus remembered the sacrifice of hundreds of students and civilians from all walks of life ...

A large yacht went up in flames Wednesday night in Marina del Rey, California. Fire officials say no one was on the yacht at ...