Officials of Myanmar opposition group the National League for Democracy (NLD) said Sunday that the government has sentenced five of its members to prison for participating in a march commemorating the mass student protests against the junta...
Belarusian officials released opposition politician Alexander Kozulin from prison Saturday after two years' detention for staging political protests. Kozulin was sentenced to more than five years in prison in July 2006 for leading unauthorized protests...
Chinese media reported Friday that the Shanghai Municipal First Intermediate People's Court sentenced a former city official to death after being convicted of multiple corruption charges on Thursday, though the sentence will not be imposed for...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday asked the Israeli government to stop official plans to demolish or confiscate the homes of those suspected of terrorism, calling such plans a violation of international law. The request...
Members of the Muslim group Hizbut Tahir Indonesia (HTI) held a demonstration outside the US Consulate General and the US embassy in Jakarta Sunday to protest a letter sent by members of US...
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. disclosed Friday in its quarterly report that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating possible breaches of procedure by one of the bank's subsidiaries in...
The UN observed its fourteenth International Day of the Worlds Indigenous People Saturday, marking the first observance since the September 2007 adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ....
Sudan Justice Minister Abdel-Basit Sabdarat said Wednesday that he had named one primary prosecutor and three assistants to investigate and try war crimes suspects from the country's Darfur region . The International Criminal Court (ICC) ...
The jury in the military commission trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan found Hamdan guilty on Wednesday of providing material support for terrorism, marking the first verdict rendered by a military commission trial at Guantanamo...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched a new program Tuesday that allows certain illegal immigrants to coordinate their removal from the US with ICE without the risk of home raids, arrest or...
