US District Judge Gladys Kessler of the DC District Court has ruled that Haji Rohullah , an Afghan citizen detained by the US military at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, is entitled to...
The South African Constitutional Court Tuesday dismissed the final appeal of businessman Schabir Shaik, a former business associate of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma , who was seeking to have his...
Jack Landman Goldsmith , former head of the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel and now a Harvard Law School professor, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that he...
The Director of Administration of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) , the court established to try former Khmer Rouge leaders, agreed late Monday to make public the text of a controversial...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Thursday handed down judgments on war crimes suspects Mile Mrksic, Miroslav Radic and Veselin Sljivancanin , who were accused of...
The US Senate approved an amendment to the 2008 Senate Defense Reauthorization Bill by unanimous voice vote Thursday that would expand federal hate crimes legislation. Among its provisions, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Thursday upheld a 2005 lower court ruling acquitting two Kosovo Albanians and convicting one other for their alleged actions at a prison camp...
US President George W. Bush Tuesday addressed the UN General Assembly and called on fellow member states to abide by the dictates of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by opposing dictatorships...
The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois Monday filed a federal lawsuit against state of Illinois in an effort to invalidate a state law that wold prevent employers from...
The Zimbabwean Parliament unanimously passed amendments to the Zimbabwean constitution Thursday that essentially give President Robert Mugabe the authority to appoint his successor. Both Mugabe's ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front...
