AKBAR GANJI is an Iranian journalist. A former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, he became a political ...

Iranian authorities have issued heavy prison sentences for at least two dozen activists from the Azeri minority since October ...

Human rights experts in Washington are divided over whether US withdrawal from the body will hurt North Korea’s already poor ...

Iran has reportedly executed some 909 prisoners in 2024, with Kurds making up 20 percent of the total, a human rights ...

The Taliban's shadow diplomacy is an attempt to sustain their rule despite global rejection. By avoiding Western diplomatic ...

State media in Iran say the country's supreme leader has pardoned two female journalists who reported the death of a woman in police custody in 2022.

U.S. President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order stopping ...

Afrikaners are a group of white South Africans descend mainly from Dutch settlers. US President Donald Trump is claiming that ...

Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi have been pardoned by Iran's Supreme Leader after their coverage ...

Sarusak Rumnao, 32, Watchara Sriaoun, 33, Sathian Suwannakham, 35, Pongsak Thaenna, 36, and Bannawat Saethao, 27, were freed ...