Indonesian students and activists said on Wednesday that a minister's suggestion to remove doors at college dormitories to prevent sexual promiscuity would infringe privacy and compromise security.
Ethiopian opposition activists have demanded news on the fate of six of their leaders and other inmates held in a high-security prison that was wrecked by a massive fire over the weekend.
Turkey yesterday arrested several people, including the local official for Reporters Without Borders and the head of a key human rights organisation
An influential group of Sri Lankan academics and professionals took legal action yesterday to seek the sacking...
An influential group of Sri Lankan academics and professionals yesterday called on the president to remove the country’s controversial central bank chief...
Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested at least 103 militants as part of a broad crackdown on Islamists after a wave of deadly attacks on members of minority groups and liberal activists, police said on Monday.
Greenpeace activists held a high-rise protest in Madrid yesterday, scaling a tower to oppose a free trade agreement being negotiated between the US and European Union.
Bangladesh police have arrested a suspected Islamic militant over the hacking to death of two gay rights activists, part of a spate of murders of intellectuals, writers and religious minorities, officers said.
South Korean and US activists have launched anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border where tensions...
A military court in Thailand has jailed eight activists who posted comments critical of the ruling junta ...
A Myanmar court freed dozens of jailed students yesterday in the first wave of detainee releases after Aung San Suu Kyi pledged..
