The Belgrade Appeals Court on Monday overturned the war crimes conviction of former Bosnian officer Ilija Jurisic and ordered a retrial. The court reasoned that September 2009 proceedings in the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District...
Commander of the rebel Mai Mai Cheka Lieutenant Colonel Sadoke Kokunda Mayele was arrested Tuesday by UN peacekeepers and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government forces for allegedly...
Many African nations are seeing a decline in democratic rights and the rule of law despite making economic advances, according to a survey Monday by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation . The annual Ibrahim Index of African...
The Icelandic Parliament on Tuesday voted 33-30 to refer charges against former prime minister Geir Haarde to the Landsdomur, a special court created to try government ministers. Haarde...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted a stay Tuesday allowing federal funding for stem cell research to continue pending a full appeal. After hearing oral arguments...
The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China released a position paper Sunday on the country's human rights record, claiming that it has heightened Internet freedoms and improved...
Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as his trial resumed Monday to defend himself against charges of war crimes. According to...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh, Police Chief Nathan Harper and more than 15 police...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report Monday absolving the FBI of charges that agents conducted investigations of domestic groups based on their exercise of...
UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Sudan Muhamed Chande Othman called Tuesday for a thorough and transparent investigation into the early September attack in Northern Darfur that left many civilians...
