The Minsk Central Court in Belarus Friday sentenced four independent election monitors for their affiliation with an "unregistered" organization which infringed on citizens' rights. The four were members of the Partnership monitoring group, which had received...
Two days before the 61st anniversary of the first US atomic bombing of Japan , the Hiroshima District Court in Japan ruled Friday that 41 survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and...
The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that Vermont civil union laws govern a child custody battle between a now-separated lesbian couple who were legally joined in a civil union in Vermont,...
A US military prosecutor said in closing arguments at an Article 32 hearing Friday that four US soldiers should face court-martial for violating the laws of war by setting several Iraqi detainees free after a...
Texas Republicans cannot remove former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from the November congressional ballot, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday. Tina Benkiser,...
North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley Thursday signed into law a bill establishing an innocence inquiry commission which will review appeals by inmates who claim they have been wrongly convicted. The North Carolina Innocence...
US-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that indiscriminate Israeli air and artillery strikes on Lebanese civilians cannot be systematically dismissed as accidents and called several of Israel's attacks "war crimes" in a...
Nepal's High Level Probe Commission Thursday questioned army chief Pyar Jung Thapa as part of the panel's continuing investigation of alleged human rights abuses during pro-democracy protests in April which brought an end to the 14-month...
A Malawian court Wednesday sentenced the former principal secretary in the country's Ministry of Education to two years in jail for "aiding and abetting the theft of public funds," making him the most senior civil servant to...
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Monday "strongly condemned" the weekend Israeli bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana that resulted in the deaths of some 60 civilians - including 37...
