Protesters in military-ruled Thailand have been silently reading 1984 in public to outwit a ban on gatherings—leading to the book itself being banned. Egypt could be next.
A mass killing in several poor neighborhoods seems to be the work of an elite police unit. Based on Brazil's record, the police agents are unlikely to face criminal charges.
Lawmakers in South Sudan passed a controversial bill that gives security forces the power to arrest suspected criminals without a warrant, prompting an opposition walk-out.
Reports of torture soared after Mexico's government began its militarized "war on drugs," but the tradition of de facto impunity for torturers appears not to have changed.
The UN mission in Haiti influenced the creation of special urban police units in Brazil—and helped the Brazilian military make up for shortfalls in its training budget.
Just when the child migrant "crisis" is drawing attention to abuses by US-trained Latin American military officers, local police are trying to close down the annual SOA protest.
Human Rights Watch finds that the FBI may have "created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals" through the use of infiltrators "encouraging the target to act."
Pakistan's parliament passed a new anti-terrorism bill that allows warrantless searches and detention of suspects at secret facilities for up to 60 days without charge.
Guerrero community activist Nestora Salgado has been in prison since August without representation; now her family may be being targeted as well.
An uprising in a favela on hills overlooking the famed Copacabana beach spilled over into the posh tourist district below. Is Rio's "pacification" campaign backfiring?
Military Police occupied the favela, or shantytown of Caramujo outside Río de Janeiro following riots sparked by the death of two local youths in incidents with the security forces.
Brazilian Military Police backed by Marine troops occupied the massive Maré favela next to Rio de Janeiro's airport in a major clean-up operation ahead of the World Cup.
