The United Nations has raised alarm over the deportation of over 1.9 million Afghan migrants from Iran and Pakistan in the ...

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has reported that more than 1.9 million Afghan migrants have been deported from Iran and Pakistan in the past seven months. Speaking ...

From Hong Kong to India, governments are passing and weaponizing new laws to pursue and jail whoever speaks up for human ...

The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday expressed concerns over alleged inhumane and unlawful treatment ...

Amnesty International has issued a report demanding the immediate and unconditional release of detained leaders of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), whose arrests Amnesty calls a flagrant example o ...

Amnesty International called for Pakistan to release high-profile Baloch activists on Tuesday, condemning the arbitrary detention of the protesters. A letter to authorities called for the release of ...

In exchange for millions of dollars, El Salvador’s self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele, has housed at ...

British High Commissioner Jane Marriott said that after “extensive engagement” between the U.K.’s Air Safety Committee and the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority, restrictions on Pakistani airlines ...

McGovern notes need to engage and talk about "political prisoners"; blasphemy laws, Baloch activists, blocking of YouTube ...

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra described the action as a case of ‘state-sponsored kidnapping’ by the Chhattisgarh ...

Amnesty said that laws such as the Maintenance of Public ... extending their three-month detention. In May, Amnesty and four other human rights organisations had called on Pakistan to release human ...

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan.   Pakistan’s information and freedom of speech ...