North Korea, land of gulags, government-enforced information blackouts, and humans so hungry they eat other humans, has finally weighed in on the NSA-spying controversy and has become ... an advocate for American civil liberties.
Despite the lawyers of over a dozen inmates reporting a widespread hunger strike happening right now inside Guantanamo, a prison spokesperson issued a no-such-thing statement on Monday.
An analysis of satellite images suggests that at least one North Korean prison camp has been significantly expanded over the past decade, including since the death of former premier Kim Jong-Il.
Australian and Israeli officials have found themselves squaring off over the death of an anonymous prison inmate who killed himself under very shady circumstances. Here's everything you need to know about the made-for-spy-novel drama as it unfolds.
The United Nations wants to remind everyone that while the world was busy worrying about North Korea's terrible nuclear missiles they were ignoring North Korea's even more terrible human rights abuses.
The United Nations has drawn up a list of individuals and military units it believes are guilty of war crimes in Syria, though Human Rights Watch also says that opposition forces are guilty of torture and summary executions as well.
Despite not executing any prisoners in almost 30 years, Gambia's president has promised to carry out the death sentences for all of the nation's death row inmates before the middle of September
Nabeel Rajab, activist and president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, was sentenced to three months behind bars on Monday, for posting a tweet that criticized Bahrain's prime minister, Prince Khalifa bin Sulman al-Khalifa.
We noted yesterday that the people planning to protest Apple's store in New York's Grand Central Station didn't want to give up their iPhones, they just wanted them produced more humanely. Today we learned they didn't really want to give up their free time, either.
Vint Cerf is ruffling nerds' feathers with his Thursday op-ed in The New York Times that claims in almost trollish fashion: "Internet Is Not a Human Right."
A judge just sentenced Reynaldo Bignone, former leader of Argentina's military junta, to 15 years in prison for setting up a torture center in a hospital basement during the 1976 coup.
The New York Times' man about the world had a dramatic evening last night as he accompanied police on a raid to shut down a brothel trafficking in underage girls.
He's the latest high-profile dissident freed in advance of Wen Jiabo's visit to Europe
Early analyses of China's move suggest it was all about cleaning up its image
Amnesty International has included the Vatican in its list of human rights abusers
On political wives, female genital mutilation, and the torture debate
A thirty-something protester tells his story to The Guardian
Apparently they didn't like Hillary Clinton's speech last week
Chinese officials have confirmed that they've detained the dissident artist
Commentators predict revolutions everywhere from Yemen to Venezuela--but is that really likely? Not all autocracies are equal
The cautious optimism following Aung San Suu Kyi's release
But he probably won't serve them because of a plea deal
Finding the balance between facilitating adoption and thwarting exploitation is tricky
A bill to imprison and possibly execute gay Ugandans is on its way to becoming law. Gay rights pundits propose ways to stop it.
Why the president's carrot and stick approach to the genocide is unlikely to succeed
What does the conditional release of an ex-Congolese warlord mean for the International Criminal Court?
Burma's pro-democracy leader, sentenced today, brought out another round of high-profile condemnation of the military junta.
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