United Nations human rights experts have sounded the alarm over what they describe as a deeply troubling assault on the rule ...

The Punjab government’s move also highlights a grim reality. Instead of fixing the economic conditions that push people into ...

Pakistan Punjab is cracking down on manhole cover theft. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has warned of severe penalties, ...

With jarring regularity, the gates of an Indian high-security prison swing open for a prominent guru jailed for life for murder, freeing him to preach virtue to the millions of followers he holds in ...

The rights activist Narges Mohammadi is protesting her continued detention, her family said. She was arrested again in ...

UN experts condemned on Wednesday the conviction of the lawyers and human rights defenders, Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha, by the District and Sessions Court in Islamabad, Pakistan.

State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, according to a government-funded ...

In 2025, Pakistani authorities deployed vague and overbroad laws to intensify their crackdown on media freedom, political ...

Iranian authorities carried out executions on a scale unseen since the late 1980s, conducted mass and arbitrary arrests, and ...

Previous arrangements between the Syrian government and the SDF largely centered on temporary ceasefires, the management of contact lines, or narrowly defined security coordination. None evolved into ...

Pakistan’s military says suicide and gun attacks across the restive southwestern province of Balochistan have killed 33 people, including civilians, while security forces responding to the violence ...

Pakistan’s military says multiple suicide and gun attacks across the restive southwestern province of Balochistan have killed ...