Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws ...

People all around the world face human rights violations at the hands of their own government. Often it can be for simple, ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko has awarded himself a seventh term as president of Belarus, with the West calling the so-called vote a ...

President Donald Trump has fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency that enforces civil rights ...

William Hartson of Massillon had been sentenced to prison for hiding 17 pounds of cocaine inside checked baggage on a flight to Cleveland.

In the background of his anti-immigration orders and attacks on civil rights, the president and his allies are advancing ...

HONG KONG — China is sending Vice President Han Zheng to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, Chinese state media reported Friday, the first time a senior Chinese leader ...

Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since its liberation by Soviet troops.

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in ...

Belarus has “unilaterally” freed an American woman from detention, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday, as ...

Belarusians are voting in a closely managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving ...