HUMAN RIGHTS

The female victim could barely open her eyes in the sunlight and banned from seeing her daughter.

Qatar confirms that it is holding two British employees of Global Network for Rights and Development.

Founder of 'Liberal Saudi Network' has sentence upheld, ordered to endure lashes outside mosque.

A British man and his Saudi wife physically assaulted by religious police outside a mall in Riyadh.

Average daily cost of the Iraq war, including the airstrikes, is around £4.5 million.

Pyongyang's foreign ministry pours scorns on US for its handling of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

Eight of the nineteen people were beheaded for non-violent offences including sorcery and drug smuggling.

MPs from both ruling and opposition parties convene to discuss tabling the anti-gay bill again in parliament.

US House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed resolution for China to end prisoner organ harvesting.

Law Wan-tung, 44, pleads not guilty to abusing Erwiana Sulistyaningsih in Hong Kong

The High Court ruling comes after Cait Reilly's Poundland case.

New law enables judges to prosecute human rights crimes in absentia.

Human rights organisation hopes to help activists in imminent danger of attack, kidnap or torture

Respondents were successful in the Court of Appeal, but Theresa May took the case to the Supreme Court.

Ti-Anna Wang has suffered 25 years of injustice. Now she tells her story.

Third of British believe torture acceptable to protect the public

Badawi was sentenced to a vicious flogging - and millions of people will share the pain.

Entertainer's 18-month ordeal comes to end after CPS drops sex charge prosecution

A new exhibition of Ai Weiwei's work has gone on display in New York, even though the Chinese dissident artist will not be able to attend.

Burundi has its own turbulent past - and a very uncertain present.

Rock musician Paul Weller claimed photos of children on holiday in Los Angeles were voyeuristic.