Saudi Arabia executed 184 people in 2019 the most in six years, human rights organization Reprieve said on Monday.

Asylum seekers face competing miseries: violence at home, and a punitive detention system with a shard of hope for relief abroad.

Tesco has suspended production of charity Christmas cards at a factory in China after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside one. The note, found by Florence Widdicombe, was allegedly written by prisoners in Shanghai claiming they were "forced to work against our will". "Please help us and notify human rights organisation," the message said.

A man from Alabama who served 36 years in prison for stealing $50.75 from a bakery will soon be released, according to reports. In 1983, Alvin Kennard, now 58, was convicted of first-degree robbery in connection with the January 24, 1983 theft at Highlands Bakery and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, under Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act. Court papers show $50.75 was stolen in the incident, AL.com reported.

Homosexuality, feminism and atheism are classed as extremist ideas in Saudi Arabia, according to an official video from the country's Security Agency.

The treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is facing the threat of extradition from Britain to the US on espionage charges, is putting his life "at risk", an independent UN rights expert said Friday.

Serikjan Bilash signed a plea deal after Kazakh officials charged him with "inciting ethnic tensions" for his work documenting repression against Kazakhs and in China's Xinjiang region.

The United Nations has called on Saudi Arabia to repeal laws that allow stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children. Children over 15 years are tried as adults and can be executed, "after trials falling short of guarantees of due process and a fair trial", according to the report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Attorneys representing Roxsana Hernández's family said ICE was required to preserve the surveillance footage for pending litigation.

A drone video appearing to show hundreds of blindfolded men being led from a train in China has raised new concerns over the ongoing crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs in the far western region of Xinjiang.

Migrant labourers are being worked to death in searing temperatures in Qatar, with hundreds estimated to be dying from heat stress every year, a Guardian investigation can reveal. This summer, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers toiled in temperatures of up to 45C for up to 10 hours a day as Qatar’s construction boom hit its peak ahead of the Fifa World Cup 2022.

Captain Carlo Giarratano didn’t think twice when, late last month, during a night-time fishing expedition off the coast of Libya, he heard desperate cries of help from 50 migrants aboard a dinghy that had run out of fuel and was taking on water. The 36-year-old Sicilian lives by the law of the sea. He reached the migrants and offered them all the food and drink he had. While his father Gaspare coordinated the aid effort from land, Carlo waited almost 24 hours for an Italian coastguard ship that finally transferred the migrants to Sicily.

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Editorial: An estimated 1 million Uighurs and other minorities are held in China’s camps. But Beijing’s power has silenced many of those who one might expect to criticise it

Analysts find system often wrongly identifies people and could breach human rights law

Most of the time, an individual is not acting alone, but on the authority of an all-male ‘family council’

Victims include imprisoned followers of Falun Gong movement, China Tribunal says

Three decades after the crackdown, Beijing is still terrified of the movement and what it stood for.

Reuters has learned Vice President Mike Pence is asserting quiet but unmistakable influence over a sweeping White House push to use health policy to restrict access to abortion and contraception, both in the United States and around the globe.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke with New Yorkers about her efforts in Congress to increase access to affordable housing at a town hall in the Bronx Thursday evening. Housing, she says, should be legislated as a human right. “What does that mean? It means that our access and our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else’s privilege to earn a profit,” said Ocasio-Cortez.