WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday dismissed an Iranian threat to try U.S. officials in absentia on human rights charges as a clumsy attempt to deflect international attention from Tehran’s own rights record.Continue Reading

More than 100 days into Syria’s protests, it is increasingly clear that the savage and senseless violence of Syria’s security forces is fueling the protest movement. While a vast majority of protesters remain comm…Continue Reading

The Bahrain government, since March 2011, has been carrying out a punitive and vindictive campaign of violent repression against its own citizens.

(Washington, DC) – The Bahrain government, sinc…Continue Reading

Malaysia is playing hardball with the Federal Government over its proposed refugee swap deal, dictating strict terms on who it will accept and looking to absolve itself from human rights obligations.Continue Reading

One of President Hugo Chavez’s most well-known inspirations, leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky, is challenging the Venezuelan leader on a key human rights case by asking him to release a judge detained since 2009.Continue Reading

A human rights group says a Syrian boxer who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics has been injured in the country’s unrest. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says boxer Nasser al-Shami was struck by shotgun pellets when security forces opened …Continue Reading