The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday expressed alarm over the increased use of capital punishment in Saudi Arabia, including increased use of torture to obtain confessions. According to...
An Iowa District Court on Wednesday ordered that the Iowa Department of Public Health must include both names of married same-sex parents on children's birth certificates. Melissa and Heather Gartner sued the Iowa...
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former State Department employee demanding diplomatic immunity against charges she participated in the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday criticized the Kyrgyz Supreme Court for upholding a guilty verdict in a trial it claims was marred by allegations of torture, violence and threats. In its ruling on December...
The New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday alleging the government violated the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in refusing to release legal memoranda...
An Egyptian military court on Thursday reduced the sentence of a blogger charged with criticizing the military. The court reduced the three-year sentence of blogger Maikel Nabil to two years. Nabil was convicted and sentenced to prison...
The White House on Wednesday announced that President Barack Obama no longer intends to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 . The about face comes after revisions by lawmakers that address the concerns...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Monday that Greece wrongly blocked the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in a dispute over the...
Seychelles President James Michel on Monday asked world leaders to address security problems in Somalia with greater urgency on Monday in order to lower the rate of Somali pirate attacks in the southern Indian...
An appeals court in Vietnam reduced the sentence of pro-democracy blogger and professor Pham Minh Hoang , alias Phan Kien Quoc, by more than half on Tuesday. Hoang was sentenced in August to three years...
