An Italian court has set a hearing for January 9 to determine whether to issue indictments for over 30 US and Italian intelligence agents in the alleged kidnapping and extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa...
Human Rights Watch urged China Monday to "repeal restrictions on lawyers handling collective disputes and representing protesters." In a new report , HRW slammed rules adopted by the government-controlled All China Lawyers Association [group website,...
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in two cases Monday, including Carey v. Musladin , where the Court held that a federal appeals court improperly overturned a state...
US government lawyers asked a federal judge Friday to dismiss a lawsuit against outgoing US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in connection with alleged torture and abused by US personnel in Iraq...
War crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj agreed to end his nearly month-long hunger strike Friday after an appeals chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled that Seselj...
An internal investigation has found that French police officers improperly handled a case that sparked weeks of rioting outside Paris and around the country late last year, a lawyer involved in the case said Thursday. The...
The Nigerian Supreme Court has ruled that an attempt to remove regional governor Rasheed Ladoja from his position was unconstitutional. Ladoja, governor of Nigeria's Oyo state, was impeached in January 2006 after being accused of corruption and...
Italian lawmakers are planning to draft legislation that would give some legal recognition to same-sex unions , officials from the Italian Senate said Thursday. Senate leaders have requested that a bill be drafted by January...
The Iraq Study Group (ISG) recommended Wednesday that the Bush administration provide "strong" support and funding for US Justice Department efforts in Iraq "to establish courts; to train judges, prosecutors, and investigators; and to create...
A court in Yemen on Wednesday found Mohammad al-Assadi guilty of denigrating Islam and fined him 500,000 rials ($2,541) for republishing offensive cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad earlier this year. Al-Assadi, editor of the Yemen Observer...
