The highest Bahraini appellate court on Monday upheld the convictions of 13 prominent pro-democracy protestors convicted by military tribunal in 2011 on charges of plotting to overthrow the monarchy. Bahrain's Court of Cassation rejected the appeals [AFP...
Bank of America (BOA) on Monday reached a $10.3 billion settlement with Fannie Mae to settle claims that Countrywide Financial Corporation , now a BOA subsidiary, employed faulty lending practices on $1.4 trillion in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that he intends to sign a recently passed bill that would prohibit United States citizens from adopting Russian children. The legislation was unanimously passed this week...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Saudi Arabia to dismiss a criminal case escalated last week to a senior Saudi court on apostasy charges. Website editor Raif Badawi, 30, was originally charged...
The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution to extend the term of office of five judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Justices Mehmet Guney of...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that the government of Macedonia is responsible for the torture and degrading maltreatment of a man the ECHR found to be an innocent victim of...
The German Parliament on Wednesday approved a bill that explicitly permits male infant circumcision . The law comes in response to a Cologne state court ruling that...
A court in Florence on Wednesday struck down Law 40 , Italy's nationwide ban on the use of embryos for scientific purposes. The panel of judges ruled that the law is an unconstitutional violation of fundamental...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday ruled that a former Somali military colonel was responsible for the torture of a human rights advocate in the 1980s. Colonel Abdi...
The only surviving shooter in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks was executed at a prison in India Wednesday hours after President Shri Pranab Mukherjee finally rejected the gunman's clemency appeal. Pakistani national...
