Lawyers for a suspect in the USS Cole bombing being held at Guantanamo Bay filed a motion Tuesday with the military commission overseeing detainee cases seeking to subpoena the president of Yemen for questioning. Lawyers for alleged al Qaeda senior...
An Iraq war veteran filed suit Wednesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after it refused to pay her full disability...
The Swedish Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will not hear an appeal of the copyright convictions of Fredrik Neji, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstroem for their involvement in running The Pirate Bay , a...
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit asking the court to overturn the decision to block provisions of the state's new controversial...
The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday refused to replace a judge presiding over investigations at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) after Cambodia attempted to block him. Laurent Kasper-Ansermet is the judge...
A coalition of Middle Eastern human rights organizations on Thursday accused all parties involved in the Libya conflict of human rights violations and crimes against humanity. Three organizations were involved in the fact-finding mission [press...
The Ethiopian government's relocation of thousands of indigenous people from the western Gambella region has resulted in possible human rights violations, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The Gambella relocations, which...
A court in Senegal on Thursday rejected a Belgian court's request to extradite Hissene Habre , the former president of Chad, on accusations that he killed and tortured opponents during his regime. Habre served as...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Carolina on Monday placed a hold on a lawsuit over the state's new immigration law pending the outcome of a similar case to...
A report compiled by a French court appeared Tuesday to clear Rwandan President Paul Kagame of accusations that he orchestrated the 1994 assassination of the country's then-leader Juvenal Habyarimana . The accusations against Kagame...
