The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a portion of an Arizona voter registration law requiring voters to show identification at the polls, while striking down a provision that further...
The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) announced Friday the filing of a lawsuit against three US agencies over the repeated detention and questioning of Muslims about their religious beliefs and practices...
Four independent UN human rights experts on Friday called for the immediate release of Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, who is serving a life sentence for terrorism-related charges after being tried before the Bahrain military National...
The Mali junta issued a statement Tuesday accusing rebels in the northern town of Gao of grave human rights violations, particularly the kidnap and rape of local women and girls. Last month the military overthrew President Amadou Toumani Toure...
The Ankara 12th High Criminal Court on Wednesday began the trial of the last two surviving leaders of Turkey's 1980 coup d'etat that led to three years of military rule, during which 50 people were hanged and half a...
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday in Setser v. United States on whether a federal district court, in sentencing a defendant for a federal offense, has authority to order that the federal...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Wednesday in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper that the phrase "actual damages" as found in the Privacy Act of 1974 is sufficiently ambiguous...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in United States Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida on whether the suit brought by challengers of the minimum coverage provision...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday in Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland on the abrogation of states' Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity by the self-care leave provision of...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Tuesday expressed concern over reports of excessive force used by Bahraini security forces against citizen protesters. The alleged disproportionate use of force has...
