Maldives authorities suspended 56 lawyers on Monday for signing and trying to submit a petition to the Supreme Court calling to uphold the rule of law. The petition cited court violations primarily in cases against opposition politicians. The Department of...
Property owners in Harris County, Houston filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government on Tuesday for releasing water from the Barker and Addicks reservoirs after Hurricane Harvey, causing flooding in their homes and businesses. The...
A group of 15 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration's decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) program. DACA provides protection...
A US grand jury indicted 19 people , including 15 Turkish security officials, on Tuesday for attacking protesters during a visit to the White House by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in May. The protesters gathered...
The Guatemalan Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended President Jimmy Morales' order to deport the head of a UN anti-corruption commission from the country. The order came from the president two days after Ivan Velasquez, the Colombian prosecutor who...
Since the Kenyan presidential election on August 8, more than 12 people have been killed and more than 100 have been badly injured due to serious human rights violations , Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Monday. Following the announcement...
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that will lift an Obama-era directive that restricted local police agencies' access to military equipment. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke Monday morning to the...
Amnesty International UK (AI) on Friday called for improved police training and a review of the legal framework as they relate to hate crimes in the UK. In a news briefing tilted "Against Hate: Tackling hate...
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday temporarily blocked the deportation of over 100 Iraq nationals, arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, for approximately two weeks during which...
Brazil's top electoral court, known as the TSE , dismissed a case on Friday against President Michel Temer for alleged illegal campaign funding in the 2014 election when he was the running mate of impeached president Dilma Rousseff. The...
