Lawyers for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani argued Monday that the charges against their client should be dismissed. Ghailani's lawyers argued before Judge Louis Kaplan of the US District Court...
The Rwandan government released a report Monday concluding that the 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana was the work of Hutu extremists. An independent committee of experts found that Hutu extremists, including members...
While no legally binding agreement was reached at the conclusion of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 192 UN member countries agreed Saturday to take note of a non-binding Copenhagen Accord [text,...
Russian human rights activist Sergei Kovalev on Wednesday urged the European Union (EU) to hold Russia accountable for human rights violations, in a speech after receiving the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought . Kovalev, joined...
The Constitutional Court of Turkey voted Friday to ban the Democratic Society Party (DTP) after finding the party to have been cooperating with the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) , a separatist, designated terrorist group....
Spanish National Court Judge Baltasar Garzon on Monday opened an embezzlement investigation against four associates of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet . Garzon accused Pinochet's widow Lucia Hiriart his former...
A former judicial official of China's southwest Chongqing Municipality, Wu Xiaoqing, was found dead Saturday while detained and facing charges for taking a large amount of bribes. In a statement to China Daily, the Chongqing Municipal Government...
An Algerian criminal court acquitted former Guantanamo Bay detainees Abdulli Feghoul and Terari Mohamed on Sunday, according to the Algerie Presse Service (APS) . Feghoul and Mohamed were repatriated [DOD document, PDF;...
The Somali Transitional Federal Government on Friday announced its intention to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) , which, if successful, would make the US the only UN member state not to...
US President Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that it is unlikely that the December UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark, will produce a legally binding agreement addressing global climate change. Deputy National Security Adviser...
