The Italian government Thursday began carrying out a controversial plan to fingerprint the country's Roma minority , despite fierce criticism from the international human rights community and Roma advocates . The fingerprinting...
Strict French anti-terrorism laws violate European and international human rights standards, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) Wednesday. In particular, the report criticized a French law [text, in...
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Thursday struck down the war crime conviction of former senior Bosnian Muslim military commander Naser Oric [ICTY case...
A divison of the New York State Supreme Court dismissed remaining charges against former New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) CEO Richard Grasso on Tuesday. Former NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had brought...
Ieng Sary , former Foreign Minister during the Khmer Rouge regime , appeared before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) for the second day Tuesday to appeal his detention...
A Chinese reporter for US-based Chinese news website Boxun.com received a four-year prison sentence Tuesday in Nanjing on charges of illegal weapons possession and public disorder. Sun Lin, who writes under the pen name Jie...
A Polish appeals court has ruled that the trial of former communist military leader General Wojciech Jaruzelski can proceed, overturning a lower court decision that halted the trial while prosecutors gathered more evidence against other...
Unknown bombers made unsuccessful assassination attempts on the lives of five Iraqi appeals court judges Monday. The five judges - Ali al-Alaq, Suleiman Abdullah, Ghanim Janab, Alaa al-Timimi, and Hassan Fouad - are all members of the al-Rasafa Court...
Malaysian opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim filed a lawsuit on Monday against a former aide who had accused him of sodomy on Saturday. In the lawsuit, Anwar said that the aide's allegations against...
A South African magistrate Thursday set April 14, 2009 as the start of the corruption and fraud trial of suspended police commissioner Jackie Selebi . The South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) charged...
