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 ...

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 ...

Pakistan said on Monday it was creating a national paramilitary force, prompting concern among opposition parties and human rights groups that it could be used as a tool of political repression.

Noor Ul Huda is a JURIST staff correspondent in Pakistan and a recent graduate of Punjab University Law College. She files this dispatch from Lahore.  Pakistan has long been a nation where the winds ...

An amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act will allow security forces in the restive region the powers to detain any person for ...

A US judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a man charged with fire-bombing people at a Colorado event for Israeli hostages challenging their detention and possible deportation by the Trump ...

New laws regulating Colorado gun store licenses, firearm permits and the number of youth the state can keep in pretrial detention kicked into effect Tuesday. Here’s a rundown of others, too.