A spokesman for Indonesia's Attorney General Friday said the execution of three men sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings will be held in early November. The spokesman, Jasman Panjaitan, said that...
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in North Korea Vitit Muntarbhorn on Thursday called on the country to take urgent action to improve its rights record. Muntarbhorn said the country holds public executions,...
A judicial panel of the UK House of Lords Wednesday ruled that the British government acted within its power in denying a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as Chagossians the right to...
A Canadian government inquiry has found that officials of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) "indirectly contributed" to the torture of three citizens while in Syria [JURIST news...
Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled that the country's constitution allows the firing-squad execution of three men sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings . The three members of the...
The Supreme Court of Thailand on Monday convicted ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra of corruption charges related to a 2003 purchase of land by his wife Pojamarn Shinawatra [JURIST...
US military and civilian prosecutors have petitioned to have the prison term for Salim Ahmed Hamdan reconsidered, arguing that the Guantanamo military commission which heard his case improperly gave him credit for...
The High Criminal Court in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday began the trial of 86 defendants accused of attempting to destabilize and overthrow the country's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) . The accused are...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Saturday named Susan Herman , a law professor at Brooklyn Law School , as its new president. Herman, a constitutional and civil rights scholar ,...
Iran has banned the execution of minors for drug-related crimes, but will still allow the sentence to be imposed against juveniles convicted of murder, according to a statement made by Iran's Assistant Attorney General for Judicial Affairs...
