UN Undersecretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel has been unable to break a deadlock within the Lebanese government preventing approval of an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik...
Human rights activist Umida Niyazova was sentenced to seven years in prison after an Uzbek court convicted her Tuesday of illegal border crossing, smuggling, and distributing Islamic extremist propaganda. Niyazova worked for Human Rights Watch and was...
The US Supreme Court refused Tuesday to prevent the US military from transferring Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita to his home country of Libya, rejecting Zalita's arguments that he...
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two top suspects accused of committing war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan, according to an announcement from the court Wednesday. Ahmad Muhammad...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dismissed a second judge from the Ukrainian Constitutional Court Tuesday, just one day after dismissing judge Valeriy Pshenichny for an "oath violation." Deputy Chairwoman and Justice Syuzanna...
The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that the first parliamentary vote on the only candidate standing for election to the presidency of Turkey was invalid because a quorum of legislators did not participate in the vote as...
A federal judge ruled Monday that a New Hampshire law requiring that prescription information identifiable to particular doctors be kept confidential from pharmaceutical sales representatives violates the First Amendment and is unconstitutional. IMS Health and Verispan ...
Tennessee's moratorium on executions will expire Wednesday after Gov. Phil Bredesen accepted revised death penalty protocols Monday. Bredesen ordered the moratorium in February and directed the Tennessee Department of Corrections to conduct...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Medellin v. Texas , 06-984, where the Court will consider whether the Bush administration has the authority to direct a state court...
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said Monday that the treatment and trial of Australian detainee David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay demonstrate that the US and Australian governments are "prepared to throw every legal principle out the...
