A three-judge panel of the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a class-action lawsuit Tuesday against drug maker Merck & Co. over claims relating to its prescription painkiller Vioxx [JURIST news...
The Pakistani Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani , met with US officials on Sunday to discuss the release of six Pakistani citizens currently being held at the US military detention center at Guantanamo Bay ....
A spokesman for Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced Friday that the Polish government is investigating claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a secret prison in...
The military judge presiding over the military commission trial of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr on Wednesday barred US Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann from acting as a legal...
Judge Lucy Billings of the New York State Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that challenged the decision made by New York Governor David Paterson to recognize out-of-state...
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) urged Iran Tuesday to ban the use of the death penalty against juvenile offenders. The OHCHR statement comes as...
The Canadian Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) announced Monday that it appealed a Federal Court decision in which the Court found that certain notes, records and correspondence generated by government ministers and their staff...
Navy Capt. Keith Allred, the judge presiding over the military commission trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan , ruled Monday that Hamdan is not entitled to the protection against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment...
The French parliament voted to amend the French Constitution on Monday, passing the amendment package by the necessary three-fifths vote of legislators from both the French National Assembly and Senate . The amendments [draft bill,...
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg released a report on Monday emphasizing the need for European governments to critically examine their human rights records and patterns of discrimination. The report, entitled "Human Rights in...
