Serbian General Ljubisa Dikovic on Monday brought a libel suit against the head of a Serbian human rights group that accused him of failing to prevent war crimes in 1998 and 1999 during the war...
A Swiss judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) resigned on Monday over a dispute with a Cambodian ECCC judge. International Co-Investigating Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet said that he...
An Istanbul court on Monday ordered four Turkish journalists to be released from prison while they wait for their trial to resume. Journalists Ahmet Sik, Nedim Sener, Coskun Musluk and Sait Cakir were released , although...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and 49 state attorneys general on Monday filed in federal court a proposed $25 billion settlement agreement with the nation's five...
Swiss voters in a referendum on Sunday supported proposed changes to a Swiss law that imposes heavy fines for people who protest without prior governmental authorization. About 55 percent of voters in Geneva agreed to allow the...
A 2009 Ethiopian law regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is sabotaging charity work and undermining human rights in the country, Amnesty International (AI) reported Monday. Ethiopia's Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSP) blocks Ethiopian NGOs from...
The Bangkok Criminal Court on Tuesday convicted a leader of the royalist People's Alliance for Democracy Network , known as "yellow shirts," of corporate fraud. Yellow shirt movement founder and Thai media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul was sentenced to...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay , in a speech to the UN Human Rights Council during an emergency session on Tuesday, called for an immediate end to the violence in Syria. Pillay...
The Supreme Court of Indonesia on Monday restored a 15-year prison sentence for radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for his conviction on terrorism charges. Bashir appealed to the Supreme Court his...
The Spanish Supreme Court in a 6-1 decision acquitted Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon Monday of abuse of power charges . Garzon was charged with abusing power...
