The US House Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey for documents relating to the Valerie Plame leak scandal and other Committee investigations. The Committee specifically...
Unidentified assailants Thursday shot and killed a top Iraqi judge while he was traveling on a Baghdad highway. Kamel al-Shewaili was the president of the al-Rasafah Court of Appeal, one of two appeals courts in Baghdad, and presided over...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Thursday sharply criticized Zimbabwean political groups for violence surrounding the country's ongoing presidential elections and said that mediation efforts should be based on the...
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York Wednesday ruled that the National Security Agency (NSA) does not have to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether it has...
Russian police have committed serious rights abuses against suspected rebel militants from Ingushetia , including abductions, torture, and killings, according to a Wednesday report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Tuesday announced plans to complete operations a year early and to significantly reduced its budget. Earlier this year the court announced plans to operate until 2011,...
Rights group Equipo Nizkor has petitioned Spain's National Court to extradite and try four former Nazi officers for alleged war crimes committed during WWII, a group lawyer said Tuesday....
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed a petition Monday asking the court not to consider releasing suspected war criminal Thomas Lubanga . The petition also seeks leave from...
Corruption and repression are increasingly threatening legal rights in former Soviet republics like Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, according to a Monday report released by rights group Freedom House . The group said that Russia especially...
The Supreme Court of Israel Monday denied a request to suspend the opening of border crossings between the country and the Palestinian Gaza Strip . The appeal was made by the father of Sgt. Gilad Schalit...
