Human Rights Watch

Paramilitaries trained and funded by the CIA in Afghanistan commit summary executions, village-wide roundups, and other atrocities, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

The abduction and beating of an Amnesty International observer shows that under Putin the people charged with law enforcement have no respect at all for the law.

President al-Sisi’s security forces may have wanted to send a message to Fathy’s husband to stop investigating the death of an Italian researcher.

When Mikhail Ugarov and Yelina Gremina died only 45 days apart after producing a play about Sergei Magnitsky, conspiracy theories were rife. But the truth is simpler, and sadder.

Dubai’s a sunny place for shady people. Maybe Latifa really was fleeing the clutches of her father. But her choice of friends doesn’t inspire confidence in her story.

Gruesome and exhaustive, a new report from Human Rights Watch portrays a U.S. killing program gone terribly awry. Abby Haglage on the 97-page document’s most disturbing findings.

The country’s top human-rights reporters are being threatened and killed in broad daylight—and some think the government is to blame.