UN human rights envoy Yash Ghai arrived in Cambodia Tuesday to prepare his latest report on the country's rights situation but encountered opposition from Cambodian authorities who claim that Ghai's previous reports were distorted....
The Supreme Court of Pakistan will not be influenced by post-judgment possibilities in deciding the petition filed by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry , presiding Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday said in court...
Iran formally charged two more people in an alleged espionage conspiracy against the government that has left Dr. Haleh Esfandiari detained in the Evin Prison for three weeks, a spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary said...
British authorities submitted a formal extradition request to Russia on Monday, seeking Andrei Lugovoy in the poisoning-murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko . Last week, UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith rejected a Russian offer to...
A Chinese court sentenced Zheng Xiaoyu, former commissioner of China's State Food and Drug Administration , to death on Tuesday for taking bribes in exchange for his approval of substandard drugs. Zheng received over $832,000 in...
A conflict over constitutional changes in the Turkish parliament became physical Monday as nearly a dozen MPs started fighting on the parliamentary floor after one member criticized Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer . The parliament was debating a...
The Mexican government joined in opposition to a Mexico City abortion law legalizing abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy on Friday, appointing Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora to help argue before the Supreme...
An Ontario Court of Appeal panel ruled Friday that officials making determinations under the Canadian province's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act had to weigh the public interest in the release of information...
An investigator for the UN Human Rights Council said Friday that the US has committed human rights violations in its interrogations of terror suspects and by putting questionable restrictions on immigration. In preliminary report from what will...
UK Home Secretary John Reid said Thursday that control orders employed against persons suspected to be national threats when there is not enough evidence to hold them for trial are "far from...
