The Kenyan Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review unveiled the initial Harmonized Draft Constitution last week. The changes are intended to reduce the widespread injustice throughout the country, and specifically address issues that...
Groups representing key witnesses appearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) told Reuters Saturday that they may no longer participate in court trials following the acquittal of two suspects involved in the...
The UN Human Rights Committee Friday passed a resolution criticizing Iran for human rights violations, especially in the aftermath of the controversial reelection earlier this year of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . The...
A US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit panel affirmed the conviction of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart on Tuesday, and ordered her to begin her prison sentence. Stewart,...
The US Supreme Court issued a summary decision on Monday in Wong v. Belmontes , finding that a defendant's attorney was not required to present mitigating evidence that could...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Magwood v. Culliver . The court limited its grant of certiorari to the first question presented, whether "hen a...
More than 350 Taliban inmates began a hunger strike on Sunday at the Sarposa prison in Kandahar province in Afghanistan. The protest is in response to the allegedly poor...
A letter from a Guantanamo Bay detainee, made public Monday, alleges that conditions at the prison have worsened for detainees a year after the election of US President Barack Obama . Abdul Rahman...
Canadian prosecutors announced Saturday that a Rwandan genocide suspect has been charged under Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act . Jacques Mungwarere, arrested Friday by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)...
Justice Jon Kamanda was elected on Monday to a one-year term as the president of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) . Kamanda had served as a SCSL vice-president...
