More than 100 rights groups call on Bahrain to "immediately release" prominent opposition figure Nabeel Rajab.

A leading human rights group has accused Israel of 'whitewashing' investigations after the Tel Aviv regime clears its troops of any wrongdoing in an incident that claimed the lives of scores of Palestinians in 2014.

France is facing legal action over its arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE as it fails to meet human rights groups' deadline.

Amnesty International reveals that Egypt keeps political prisoners in “prolonged” and “indefinite” solitary confinement and subjects them to “physical abuse” there.

The ruling GERB party in February withdrew the Istanbul Convention from being ratified in parliament.

The new jail term handed down by a Bahraini court to top activist Nabeel Rajab sparks angry reactions from prominent rights bodies, including Amnesty and the HRW.

Over a dozen rights groups says that next month's presidential election in Egypt does not meet the "minimum requirements" for a fair and free vote.

The UN’s independent investigator on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has been denied access to the country, amid a deadly crackdown on minority Muslims there.

Two Bahraini rights groups have warned that the life of Bahraini Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim is in danger, a year after the top spiritual leader was placed under house arrest.

A coalition of rights groups have urged IBM to avoid working for the Trump administration on 'extreme vetting' of US immigrants.