A Bahrain civilian-military court on Wednesday sentenced 19 more protesters to prison terms of up to five years, bringing the total number of protesters sentenced this week to 85. The court sentenced 13 protesters to five...
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia Surya Subedi on Wednesday urged the Cambodian government to review a proposed law that would hinder non-governmental organization (NGO) efforts in the country. The proposed Law on Associations...
The Court of Appeal of Paris on Wednesday rejected a request from Rwandan officials to extradite Agathe Habyarimana, widow of assassinated Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana , to Rwanda to face trial on genocide charges....
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit calling for the release of photographs taken shortly after Osama bin Laden's death. Nonprofit organization Justice Watch filed a complaint...
The Appeals Chamber for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the case of Aloys Ntabakuze , a former Rwandan army officer convicted of genocide and related...
The UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Thursday ordered the trials of four alleged Khmer Rouge leaders be split into a series of smaller trials . The ECCC said that...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday dismissed two cases filed by former Iraqi detainees who claimed they had been tortured by civilian contractors at the Abu Ghraib prison near...
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Thursday that the government would repeal two strict security laws that had allowed extended detention of suspects without trial, as well as review other laws dealing with freedom of the...
The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended the terms for prosecutors from the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) until December 31, 2014. In unanimously adopting resolutions 2006 and 2007...
The District Court of The Hague on Wednesday ruled that the Dutch government must pay damages to one survivor and seven widows of men killed by Dutch troops during a 1947...
