Human Rights Voices

December 26, 2014

Turkish Schoolboy Arrested For 'Insulting' President Erdogan

December 26, 2014

Mauritania condemns man to death for 'insulting the prophet'

December 25, 2014

A Saudi Woman Is Threatened After Tweeting About Beards

December 25, 2014

Father Gives 13-Year-Old Daughter To Boko Haram

December 25, 2014

11 Year-old Victim Faces "Long, Complicated" Rehabilitation

December 24, 2014

Egyptian Christians Killed, Daughter Abducted in Libya

December 22, 2014

Sudanese security raids rights group's office in Khartoum

December 20, 2014

Boko Haram executes more than 50 elderly people

December 19, 2014

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnap 100 over women, children in Nigeria

December 16, 2014

Woman Arrested For Attending Football Match In Saudi Arabia Disguised As A Man

December 16, 2014

150 Women Executed After Refusing Life of Sexual Slavery with ISIL Terrorists

December 16, 2014

Taliban Kill More Than 100 Children in Attack on Pakistani School

December 11, 2014

Human rights 'non-existent' in Iran, group warns

December 11, 2014

Remembering Iran's Imprisoned Kurds on UN Human Rights Day

December 10, 2014

ISIS Executes Homosexual By Throwing Him Off A Rooftop And Then Stoning Him

December 5, 2014

Iran Extends Imprisonment of Washington Post Reporter

December 2, 2014

Paris Jewish Community in Shock Over Rape, Home Invasion 'Because You Are Jews'

December 2, 2014

Al-Shabaab Separates Non-Muslims From Muslims, Kills 36 In Quarry Attack

November 28, 2014

Death Penalty Sought For Child Bride In Nigeria

November 26, 2014

Glamorous actress is handed 26-year jail sentence for blasphemy in Pakistan for appearing in mock TV wedding where a religious song was played in background

November 25, 2014

Hong Kong Police Arrest Demonstrators at Protest Site

November 24, 2014

2 Jewish Men Wounded Outside Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate In Suspected Terrorist Attack

November 24, 2014

Attack Kills Dozens at Afghan Volleyball Match

November 24, 2014

100 killed in new DRC massacre

November 24, 2014

Saudi Arabian restaurants ban single women from entering because of their "mentally unstable" behavior such as flirting, smoking and using mobile phones

November 21, 2014

Gambia Signs Law for Life Imprisonment for Homosexual Acts

November 19, 2014

Jerusalem Attack Shakes Israel

November 19, 2014

"Please Don't Abandon Me"

November 15, 2014

Hong Kong Student Leaders Blocked From Taking Democracy Fight to Beijing

November 12, 2014

Government of Sudan Delays Access to Investigate Reports of Mass Rape in North Darfur

November 12, 2014

Baha'i Girl Denied Burial

November 12, 2014

Iran's Human Rights Record 'Worse Under Rouhani'

November 11, 2014

Denial of Darfur rape case by UNAMID shocks Tabit victims

November 10, 2014

Suicide Bombing at Nigerian School Leaves 47 Dead

November 9, 2014

The West's Dangerous Enchantment with Islam

November 8, 2014

Mexico Gang Members 'Admit Killing Missing Students'

November 7, 2014

Iran's Horrific Human-Rights Record

November 6, 2014

More Lies from UNAMID: False Representation of an Investigation of Mass Rapes at Tabit, North Darfur

November 6, 2014

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia bans 'alluring eyes' of women

November 5, 2014

IS Fighters Talk of Buying Yazidi Girls as Slaves for $100-$300

November 5, 2014

Police Say Muslim Mob in Pakistan Kills Christian Couple Over Allegedly Desecrating the Quran

November 1, 2014

Egyptian Court Convicts Eight for Alleged Same-Sex Wedding

November 1, 2014

Boko Haram Denies Truce, Says Kidnapped Girls Married

October 28, 2014

Escaping Assad's Rape Prisons: A Survivor Tells Her Story

October 28, 2014

Kim Jong Un Executes 10 Officials for Watching Soaps, Graft

October 27, 2014

Dozens More Girls Abducted by Nigerian Extremists

October 25, 2014

Iran hangs woman, defying international campaign

October 23, 2014

Terrorist Kills Infant, Wounds Several, After Ramming Car into Crowd in Jerusalem

October 23, 2014

CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER CALLS 'BRUTAL AND VIOLENT' PARLIAMENT ATTACK "TERRORISM"

October 23, 2014

Saudi Arabia Warns Women Not to Join Protest Against Ban on Driving

October 22, 2014

Panic in Isfahan, as Police Fail to Arrest Acid Attack Assailants

October 21, 2014

The West's Female-Genital Mutilation Wake-Up Call

October 21, 2014

In Bahrain, Human Rights Defenders Are Under Attack – But We Won't Be Deterred

October 21, 2014

Prominent Bahraini Rights Activist Nabeel Rajab Goes on Trial for Twitter Remarks

October 21, 2014

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Attack Was 'Clearly Linked to Terrorist Ideology'

October 20, 2014

Roya Saberinejad Nobakht, Crime: Journalism

October 18, 2014

Acid Attacks on Women Spread Terror in Iran

October 13, 2014

Islamic state enslaves Yazidi women and girls in Iraq

October 7, 2014

Iran detains Jesus actor and two other artists

October 6, 2014

Teenager killed in Egypt while defending women from sexual harassment

October 3, 2014

Islamic State Beheads Briton Alan Henning

September 29, 2014

Pro-Democracy Protests Shake Hong Kong

September 29, 2014

Iran to Hang Rayhaneh Jabbari for Killing Man who Tried to Rape Her

September 28, 2014

Somali Militants Stone Woman to Death

September 25, 2014

Islamic State Executes Female Human Rights Lawyer by Firing Squad After Facebook Post

September 19, 2014

Girl Who Escaped Boko Haram Tells Breitbart Her Tale of Survival

September 18, 2014

Iranian children watching public executions

September 17, 2014

Iran Court Sentences 'Happy' Dancers to 6 Months and 91 Lashes

September 17, 2014

Death Sentence for "Insulting the Prophet" on Facebook

September 15, 2014

Matthew Todd Miller Sentenced to 6 Years of Hard Labor in North Korea

September 11, 2014

British-Iranian woman imprisoned for trying to watch men's volleyball game in Tehran

September 10, 2014

Six Iranians go on trial over 'Happy' video

September 7, 2014

Qatar confirms detention of two British World Cup human rights investigators

September 4, 2014

Court upholds 10-year sentence for Saudi cyber-activist

September 2, 2014

Scores killed as Boko Haram insurgents overrun Nigerian town

September 2, 2014

ISIS's Cruelty Toward Women Gets Scant Attention

September 2, 2014

American Journalist Steven Sotloff Beheaded by ISIS Terrorists in Shocking Video

September 2, 2014

A Christian Prisoner in Iran

August 30, 2014

Why Did British Police Ignore Pakistani Gangs Abusing 1,400 Rotherham Children? Political Correctness

August 28, 2014

Sudan: 16 Female Activists Arrested At a Demonstration Calling for Release of Opposition Figure

August 28, 2014

Sinai Terror Group Decapitates Four Alleged Mossad Spies

August 26, 2014

Beheadings at "record levels": Saudi Arabia executes dozens in deadly August

August 23, 2014

Israeli Toddler Murdered by Hamas Rocket fired from near Gaza civilian shelter

August 22, 2014

Hamas Executes 21 Arabs in Gaza

August 20, 2014

Human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang could get ten years in prison

August 20, 2014

Islamic State beheads US journalist James Foley, holds another

August 19, 2014

Hanifa's Story: Five Sisters Taken by ISIS to Be Sold or Worse

August 18, 2014

Iranian Photographers Face the Lash After Criticising Official's Book

August 18, 2014

Lashes for Saudi woman who called morality police liars

August 18, 2014

"Moderate" Iranian regime tortures, hands life sentence to activists for "waging war against God"

August 16, 2014

Islamic State Executed 700 People From Syrian Tribe

August 16, 2014

Dozens of Yazidis 'massacred' in northern Iraq

August 15, 2014

Boko Haram abduct dozens of boys and men in Nigeria raid, witnesses say

August 11, 2014

In Syria, Child Holds Severed Head as Proud Pa Snaps Photo

August 11, 2014

Waving their weapons and cheering, Islamic State jihadis stood over bodies and celebrated as they buried 500 Yazidis alive

August 9, 2014

Women Stoned to Death in Syria for Adultery

August 7, 2014

Hamas says executed Palestinians suspected of spying for Israel

August 6, 2014

Up to 40,000 Iraqis forced to choose between dying of thirst... or slaughter by extremists

August 4, 2014

Saudi beheads Nepalese maid for toddler murder

July 31, 2014

Nigeria Finds 10-Year-Old Girl With Bomb Strapped To Her

July 31, 2014

Syrian Defector: Assad Poised to Torture and Murder 150,000 More

July 30, 2014

Journalists Jason Rezaian and Yeganeh Salehi Held in Secret Detention Center

July 30, 2014

Hamas Executes Dozens of Civilians in Gaza

July 28, 2014

Boko Haram Attacks Northern Cameroon Town, Kidnaps Wife Of Vice Prime Minister

July 23, 2014

137,000 Victims Of Female Genital Mutilation In Britain

July 21, 2014

Iran's Judiciary Sentences A Defendant To Death By Stoning

July 18, 2014

Baha'i to Begin One-Year Prison Sentence for Practicing His Faith

July 14, 2014

Iran Sentences 8 Facebook Activists To Prison, 127 Years In Total

July 11, 2014

Iran: 411 Executions in the First Half of 2014

July 11, 2014

India Police Say Teen Raped On Orders From Village Chief

July 10, 2014

New Wave of Arrests and Prison Sentences Against Journalists in Iran

July 7, 2014

U.S.: Assad's 'Machinery of Death' Worst Since the Nazis

July 7, 2014

29 People Killed In Overnight Attacks By Terror Group Al-Shabab

July 7, 2014

Saudi Rights Lawyer Sentenced to 15 Years Prison

June 30, 2014

Three Kidnapped Israeli Teens Found Dead in Hebron

June 27, 2014

Iraq Militants Executed At Least 160 Captives

June 26, 2014

Egypt Sentences Man to 6 Years In Prison for 'Liking' Christian Facebook Post

June 22, 2014

Pakistani Woman, 20, is Gang-Raped, Killed And Hanged From a Tree

June 18, 2014

Death threat against GMMP Mauritania coordinator

June 17, 2014

Kenya Attacks: 'Women Abducted' Near Mpeketoni

June 15, 2014

Israel Blames Hamas in Disappearance of Three Teens

June 13, 2014

Two Stonings and a Beheading – Witnessing Islamic Justice

June 13, 2014

China Arrests Prominent Human Rights Lawyer

June 13, 2014

Three Teenage Yeshiva Students Missing, Feared Kidnapped In West Bank

June 12, 2014

2 More Women Found Hanging From Trees In India

June 10, 2014

A Fight as U.S. Girls Face Genital Cutting Abroad

June 10, 2014

North Korea Threatens 'Plot-Breeding' U.N. Rights Office With 'Punishment'

June 9, 2014

Iran Says Take Off the Veil-and Be Raped

June 9, 2014

Homophobia in Russia Is Taking a Kafkaesque Turn

June 6, 2014

Boko Haram Tightens Grip on Northern Nigeria Region

June 4, 2014

Nigeria Tops Christian Persecution Violence List: New Open Doors Report

June 3, 2014

More Than Two Executions Everyday in 2014 in Iran

May 30, 2014

Pakistani 'honour killing': husband strangled first wife

May 29, 2014

Grieving Husband of Pregnant Woman Stoned to Death by Family Speaks Out

May 28, 2014

'Leggings are NOT pants': Qatar launches advertising campaign reminding female tourists what not to wear

May 27, 2014

Eight Facebook Users Sentenced to Decades in Prison

May 27, 2014

Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by family

May 26, 2014

United Nations Rejects Over 50 Percent of Cancer Treatment Requests of Refugees but Spends a Billion on Palestinian Refugees

May 26, 2014

U.S. Doctor Killed In Pakistan In Front Of Family

May 25, 2014

Two Israelis Among Victims of Shooting at Brussels Jewish Museum

May 21, 2014

Syria death toll rises to more than 162,000

May 21, 2014

Liberia's Child Prostitutes

May 21, 2014

Two Car Blasts Kill 118 In Nigeria, Boko Haram Suspected Behind Attacks

May 21, 2014

Iran police arrest 6 after video surfaces of "happy" dancing Iranians

May 16, 2014

Pregnant Sudanese woman faces hanging for refusing to recant Christiani​ty

May 13, 2014

China Detains Man Who Wrote for Foreign Website

May 8, 2014

Venezuela Police Break Up Student Protest Camps, Arresting Scores

May 8, 2014

Human Rights Complaints Rise In Palestinian Territories

May 8, 2014

"Prisoner of conscience": Saudi blogger gets 10 years, 1000 lashes for "insulting Islam"

May 6, 2014

Afghan Juvenile Executed in Iran for Drug-Related Charges

May 4, 2014

Christian Teacher in Exile Awaiting Appeal of Her 'Blasphemy' Case in Egypt

May 1, 2014

China Denies Church Demolition is Persecution of Christians

May 1, 2014

Syria chemical weapons: the proof that Assad regime launching chlorine attacks on children

April 30, 2014

Nigerian Schoolgirls 'Given to Boko Haram Kidnappers as Wives'

April 30, 2014

Human Rights Blogger Gets 15-Year Jail Term

April 23, 2014

Iranian Prisoners Allegedly Forced to Run Gauntlet of Armed Guards

April 23, 2014

Foreign domestic workers in Qatar: Shocking cases of deception, forced labour, violence

April 21, 2014

Escaping human trafficking

April 20, 2014

Iranian rape victim to be hanged unless she apologizes for sex assault claims

April 18, 2014

Three Juvenile Offenders Executed in Southern Iran

April 17, 2014

Jailing Of Chinese 'Rumour Monger' Casts Shadow Over Weibo

April 16, 2014

British Woman May Face Execution in Iran for Insulting Islam

April 16, 2014

Chinese Lawyers Say They Were Tortured By Police

April 15, 2014

Over 100 Teenaged Girls Abducted From Nigeria School

April 12, 2014

Islamists Blamed for Nigeria Massacre

April 8, 2014

Egypt jails four men for gay acts

April 3, 2014

New Lebanese Domestic Violence Law Evokes Sharp Criticism

April 3, 2014

No Political Prisoners Among the 920 Pardoned

March 29, 2014

NCRI appeals to save Iranian woman on death row for defending herself against MOIS agent

March 20, 2014

Iraq Child-Marriage Bill Sparks Outrage Among Human Rights Groups

March 17, 2014

Syrian death toll exceeds 146,000 as fourth year begins

March 14, 2014

Well-known Chinese dissident dies after being denied treatment

March 12, 2014

Iran women rights defenders stay away from UN conference in fear of reprisals

March 11, 2014

Saudi Jails Islamist for 8 Years for Twitter Protest Call

March 9, 2014

Prisoners at the palace: Saudi princesses plead for help as they claim they are being held by the king against their will

March 9, 2014

Frustration in Afghan women's rights struggle

March 7, 2014

Release Shafipour, Hedayat, and All Other Women Prisoners of Conscience

March 7, 2014

Iran Denies Medical Care To Political Prisoners

March 7, 2014

4 Accused Gays Whipped in North Nigerian Court

March 5, 2014

Farzaneh Moradi, A 26 Year Old Woman, Was Hanged for Murdering Husband She Was Forced to Marry at 15

March 3, 2014

Islamist Militants Kill 31 More In Northeast Nigeria

March 3, 2014

Iran Executes Two for 'Perversion'

February 27, 2014

14 patients slain in South Sudan

February 25, 2014

Russia: Guilty verdict in Bolotnaya case - injustice at its most obvious

February 25, 2014

Saudi Schools Ban Females Who Don't Wear a Face Veil

February 24, 2014

Sudan court convicts gang-raped teenager of 'indecent acts'

February 21, 2014

Witnesses: Chadian troops kill civilians

February 21, 2014

2 Prominent Women Under Detention Are Hospitalized

February 20, 2014

Truce crumbles amid gunfire in Ukraine, protesters claim 100 dead

February 19, 2014

Venezuelan beauty queen Genesis Carmona, 22, fatally shot in head during protest

February 18, 2014

Carnage in northern Nigeria amounts to crimes against humanity

February 17, 2014

Syrian Girl Stoned To Death For Facebook Membership

February 14, 2014

Stop the Executions by the Islamic Republic of Iran

February 13, 2014

Saudi religious police hunt down Twitter 'witchcraft' accounts

February 13, 2014

Sudan: Pregnant Gang Rape Victim Remains in Police Custody

February 10, 2014

Lynching Of Christian Man By Muslims Is Sign Of Chaos In Central African Republic

February 5, 2014

An Open Letter On Al-Qaeda's American Hostage Warren Weinstein

February 4, 2014

Aides Of Afghan Presidential Candidate Shot Dead

February 4, 2014

Iranian Women Fight Efforts To Restrict Travel Abroad

February 3, 2014

Civil society activist arrested ahead of start of Sochi Olympics

February 2, 2014

Amir Taheri: Rouhani Orders Execution Of Arab Iranian Poet

February 1, 2014

Austrian rape victim was arrested for having sex outside of marriage in UAE when she reported the crime... and told she had to marry her attacker

January 31, 2014

Ukrainian protestor kidnapped, crucified and has part of his ear cut off before being dumped in a forest after a week of torture

January 31, 2014

Russia: "Foreign Agents" Law Hits Hundreds of NGOs

January 27, 2014

Philippines: Officers in secret police detention cell play 'torture roulette' with inmates

January 26, 2014

Gruesome Details of Gaddafi's Rape Of Teenagers and Other Crimes Revealed

January 26, 2014

Pakistani Court Sentenced to Death Mentally Ill Briton Claiming To Be Prophet Mohammad

January 26, 2014

China Sentences Legal Advocate Xu Zhiyong To 4 Years In Prison

January 22, 2014

Newborn Lebanese Baby 'Joins' Hizbullah

January 21, 2014

Indian Cleric Issues Anti-Gay Fatwa: A Gay Or Lesbian "May Be Burned Alive, Pushed From A High Wall, Or Beaten Publicly With Stones"

January 20, 2014

Pakistani TV Channel's Attack On Pakistan's Gay Community, Bedrooms Raided And Gays Accused Of Being Against Islam And A Conspiracy Of Jews And Christians

January 16, 2014

Nigeria gays: 20 lashes for 'homosexual offences'

January 16, 2014

Six Prisoners Were Hanged For Drug Related Charges in Iran- 24 Executions in Two Days in Iran

January 14, 2014

Murdering Palestinians By Starvation

January 12, 2014

Gay 'prisoner of conscience' dies in Cameroon

January 8, 2014

Gory Video Spotlights Chaos at Brazil Prisons

January 8, 2014

Man in Pakistani Punjab attacks step-daughters with acid

January 7, 2014

Afghan girl wearing suicide bomber's vest detained after family ordered her to carry out attack

January 4, 2014

Saudi Sentenced To Jail, Lashes Over Twitter Libel: Report

January 3, 2014

Children beheaded as violence grows in Central African Republic, U.N. says