A new cybersecurity law came into force in Myanmar on 1 January 2025, with VPN usage and digital freedoms under threat.

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A U.S.-based Middle East human rights group says he's one of at least four dual Saudi-American nationals who accuse the Saudi ...

An organization in Mozambique asked the nation’s attorney-general to probe “severe human-rights violations” after a jail ...

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The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering ...

The Minneapolis City Council approved a deal to overhaul the city's police training and use-of-force policies over the 2020 killing of George Floyd.

Coverage of Syria’s prisons overlooks their decades-long use as key destinations for extraordinary rendition, where terror ...

In a self-recorded video, the suspect in the deadly New Orleans truck-ramming attack was wearing Meta smart glasses to scout ...

ATHENS, Greece — The European Court of Human Rights, in a landmark ruling Tuesday, found that Greece had illegally deported a woman back to neighboring Turkey and described the use of summary ...

Oppressive state wants global digital identity system at the heart of all AI, to make it trustworthy and prevent it being ...

The 2022 protests against Covid lockdown and subsequent crackdown on people marked a rare show of dissent in China ...