A business associate of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma lost his appeal Monday on corruption charges before the highest appeals court in South Africa, leaving Zuma's name tarnished as a potential presidential candidate....
Statistics indicate that the US Justice Department has declined to prosecute 87 percent of all terrorism case referrals from the FBI in fiscal year 2006, according to new findings released by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse...
Turkey's bid for European Union membership could be further damaged by an unreleased report on the country's human rights record, a draft version of which was obtained by the Independent. The report condemns Turkey's refusal to compromise on free...
A UN human rights expert expressed concern Tuesday about human rights violations allegedly committed by a Mexican paramilitary group in the Mexican province of Oaxaca during clashes between protesters and the police. Rodolfo Stavenhagen , the UN Special...
A Chinese intermediate appellate court has overturned and remanded back to the trial court the case of Chen Guangcheng , a blind Chinese human rights legal activist who was sentenced in August to four years...
The government of Vietnam will repeal or abolish administrative Decree 31/CP , which authorizes restrictions on citizens who commit security violations not rising to the level of criminality, in advance of US President George W. Bush's scheduled November...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday stayed an August district court ruling finding tobacco companies liable for civil racketeering charges , thus delaying enforcement of the accompanying remedial order that required the tobacco companies to...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Sunday he was optimistic that a proposed amendment to the Egyptian constitution to permit multi-candidate direct elections for the Egyptian presidency will pass when the Egyptian parliament...
Public trust in the Chinese judiciary needs in be restored in the face of court corruption and systemic failures to implement court orders, according to a report by the China's chief justice submitted to the Standing Committee of the...
Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri told a British appeals court Monday that his February conviction on incitement to murder charges should be overturned on the grounds that he was denied...
