Families of five Venezuelan men filed a lawsuit accusing Nicolás Maduro of overseeing FAES, a police unit allegedly responsible for extrajudicial killings.

Extrajudicial killing — murder carried out by state actors or by non-state vigilantes with the cover of state sanction — is the ultimate abuse of power and violation of rights. Reporting on such ...

MANILA, Philippines — A bill seeking to lay down the definition of "extrajudicial killing," a term that has found its way to the daily news cycle since the start of Duterte administration, has been ...

While life is the most basic of rights, many individuals are robbed of this through the unjust practice of extrajudicial killing, which is the deliberate killing of persons without a fair and unbiased ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that authorities in the Philippines continue to conduct extrajudicial killings, with no accountability, as part of the government’s anti-drug campaign. Ten ...

The United Nations says that almost one year since the Taliban takeover, the situation of human rights in Afghanistan has worsened considerably despite an overall significant reduction in armed ...

Growing allegations of brutality, extrajudicial killings, extortion, unlawful arrests, and abuse of power by local security ...

On July 16-17, 2007, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., there will be a “National Summit on Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances” at the Manila Hotel, Roxas Blvd. Manila. The summit is sponsored by the ...

On Monday, a federal appeals court released a memo on the extrajudicial killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. The public should have seen this memo long ago. The Obama administration suppressed it ...

Extrajudicial killings are acts of violence carried out by law enforcement agencies without any judicial authorization. This is usually done by the state to enforce what may be called ‘instant justice ...

The Department of Justice’s recent arrest and charging of an Indian man it claims was employed by an Indian government employee to kill a Sikh activist on U.S. soil again shows that extrajudicial ...