Egypt's interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi announced on Monday that plans to hold the country's constitutional referendum will likely be delaying until January, rather than taking place in December as originally expected. The interim government, which has...
UN Special Rapporteur Sheila Keetharuth on Monday urged the Eritrean government to respect its obligation to human rights, and called for protection for the hundreds of thousands of citizens currently fleeing the country for safety....
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday ordered the reconsideration of Apple's request for an injunction against Samsung products based on allegations of utility patent infringement. A jury for...
The UN Security Council on Friday rejected a resolution to defer the International Criminal Court (ICC) trials of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto [ICC materials; JURIST...
Egypt's Middle East News Agency (MENA) announced on Monday that Judge Hisham Genina and two journalists will be prosecuted for allegedly insulting other judges. Genina gave an interview to Moammed el-Sanhouri, a reporter for Al-Masry Al-Youm daily...
Syed Mohammad Qaisar, Bangladesh's former state minister for agriculture, was charged on Sunday with 18 war crimes for acts allegedly committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. Charges were formally filed with the International Crimes Tribunal...
Doctors and psychologists working in US military detention centers helped to design methods of torture for terrorism suspects, according to an independent report supported by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the Open Society Foundations ...
Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups on Monday filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court to reinstate a previous injunction blocking the implementation of a Texas law ...
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange and Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) , a Roman Catholic broadcasting network, filed a suit on Monday in federal court to challenge the constitutionality of the Patient...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that Israel will participate in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) review of its human rights record, ending an 18-month boycott. All members of the UN...
