President Francois Hollande announced that he will extend the state of emergency for another three months in light of the Nice attack—just hours after saying he would lift it.
Egypt's National Security Agency is abducting, torturing and forcibly disappearing people in an effort to intimidate opponents and crush peaceful dissent, Amnesty International charges.
As human rights groups call for restrictions on use of killer robots in actual warfare, we have seen the first lethal use of such a device in domestic policing.
Kenyan authorities detained three police officers for involvement in the murder of a human rights lawyer who disappeared after filing a complaint about police abuse.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadly Istanbul airport attack, but this did not prevent President Erdogan from exploiting the terror for anti-Kurdish propaganda.
Authorities in Bangladesh detained approximately 1,600 people this week in an effort to hunt down radical Islamist militants amid an ongoing wave of attacks.
An Egyptian court began the trial of journalists' union leader Yahya Qalash and two board members who were charged with spreading "false news" and harboring wanted reporters.
As Venezuela lurches deeper into political crisis, President Maduro launches a new phase in his controversial "Operation Liberate the People" security program.
On Argentina's Revolution Day, townspeople in Jáchal held a "patriotic march" to oppose the local operations of Barrick Gold—only to be surrounded and arrested by the police.
A wave of student protests demanding education reform in Chile has been met with harsh repression, leading to charges of "torture" recalling the era of military rule.
Security forces in Honduras carried out raids on suspected narco-gang safe-houses at various locations, bringing out helicopters and heavy weaponry.
Egyptian officials announced the conviction and prison sentences of over one hundred demonstrators who were peacefully assembling without a permit.
