Pakistan's Attorney General Malik Qayyum told Pakistan's News daily Monday night that the government has reduced the size of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to 12 and would elevate lower court judges to fill out the complement...
Dismissed Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry Tuesday urged lawyers in Pakistan to resist President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule and "stand up for the constitution." Speaking by telephone to a gathering of lawyers...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Arave v. Hoffman (07-110) to consider whether a death row inmate in Idaho should be able to accept...
Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft said in a Monday New York Times op-ed that he supports granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that complied with government requests for phone records following the September 11, 2001 terrorist...
Parliamentary elections in Pakistan will be held in mid-January as scheduled, despite Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's weekend proclamation of emergency rule , Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Monday. Aziz's comments came amid fears that the elections would...
Italian opposition leader and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday urged Italy to ban Romanian workers from entering Italy, while conservative ally Gianfranco Fini suggested that Italy should expel 20,000 Romanian workers in...
An Egyptian court sentenced two police officers to three years in prison Monday for torturing a bus driver after video clips of the incident circulated on video-sharing website YouTube . Islam Nabih, a police...
Pakistani riot police and security forces fired tear gas at dark-suited lawyers and law students assembled at the High Court in Lahore Monday and charged them with batons as some 2000 demonstrated against President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday...
The UN Human Rights Committee Friday called on Libya to end the use of torture and to investigate torture allegations by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had been detained in Libya...
Canada's ruling Conservative Party government said Thursday that it will not ask Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer to commute the death sentence of a Canadian-born man on death row in Montana . The announcement marks a sharp...
