A court in Turkey Thursday convicted Arat Dink, editor of the Armenian newspaper Agos and son of the late Armenian journalist Hrant Dink , of violating Article 301 [Amnesty backgrounder; JURIST...
Members of parliament in Nepal opened debate at a special session Thursday to address the status of King Gyanendra and the Nepalese monarchy. The Communist Party of Nepal - Maoists (CPN-M) reiterated...
Defense lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi , the only person convicted in the 1998 bombing of a Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, Thursday requested access to evidence not previously provided to them that...
Spanish lawmakers have reportedly come to an agreement on the text of the proposed anti-Franco Law for the Recovery of the Historical Memory presented to the Spanish Parliament. The legislation is aimed at healing the social wounds...
Democrats in the US House of Representatives introduced a draft bill Tuesday designed to "modernize" the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) . The so-called RESTORE Act of 2007 ("Responsible Electronic Surveillance...
A military court in Jordan Tuesday sentenced Dr. Ahmad Oweidi al-Abbadi , a former member of parliament and head of the Jordanian National Movement , to two years in prison after convicting him on...
Amnesty International Thursday urged medical professionals worldwide to refrain from participating in executions. In a new report examining the practice of execution by lethal injection , Amnesty said doctors and nurses break...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday voted 15-2 to send a federal shield bill , which would protect reporters from being compelled to disclose confidential sources, to the full Senate for consideration. The Bush administration...
Twenty-three family members and former associates of the late former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were indicted in Chile Thursday on corruption charges. The 23 suspects include five...
Nicholas Phillips , the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, urged Americans to respect human rights and embrace immigrants as a means of fighting international terrorism in an address to the International Law Section of...
