A new anti-terrorism bill in Brazil in advance of the World Cup has raised concern among human rights groups, who say the law threatens free speech and peaceful assembly.
The new commissioner of the New York Police Department, William Bratton, announced the disbanding of a controversial surveillance unit used to spy on Muslim communities.
Amnesty International called upon interim president Adly Mansour to reject the new Egyptian anti-terror law, warning it can be used as a tool to root out dissent.
Moscow police arrested hundreds protesting against military intervention in Ukraine, after President Putin won approval from senators to send troops into the neighboring country.
After 22 years, veteran Black Panther Russell "Maroon" Shoatz was released from solitary confinement into the general population at Pennsylvania's Graterford state prison.
A federal judge granted the Bureau of Prisons' request for the compassionate release of Lynne Stewart, the imprisoned activist attorney now suffering from cancer.
Following a shake-up in the military high command, the Peruvian blogosphere is abuzz with rumors of an imminent coup d'etat against President Ollanta Humala.
Anti-war and Occupy activists teamed up with survivors of police violence to protest the Urban Shield police and military expo at downtown Oakland's convention center.
Protesters and colleagues freed an attorney the government was trying to send to prison. His clients have filed corruption charges against the president’s family.
Hooded youths attacked police, journalists and other protesters at a march commemorating the 45th anniversary of the government's massacre of striking students.
Performance art, floral tributes and militant protests marked 40 years since a military coup brought Chile a 17-year dictatorship, 3,000 deaths and thousands of cases of torture.
Police managed to get protesting teachers out of the way in time for Independence Day festivities, but the teachers promised to go on with their fight against "reform."
