Rwandan genocide suspect and former Hutu militia leader Bernard Munyagishari has been arrested in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) announced on Wednesday. Munyagishari was wanted on...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday a rebuked Australia for its political, rather than human rights based approach to indigenous people and asylum-seekers. Although she criticized some of the nation's practices, she...
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Monday upheld an Ohio law that limits the use of the "abortion pill," overturning a 2006 injunction . The law...
Former Mozambique transportation minister Antonio Munguambe's sentence for embezzlement was reduced on Tuesday from 20 years in prison to four years and five months. The Supreme Court of Mozambique upheld the verdict [Journal News report,...
Amnesty International (AI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) decried on Monday Iran's persecutions of lawyers, suggesting it is a move to repress dissent. They called for the immediate release of Nasrin Sotoudeh [JURIST news...
A Somali man pleaded guilty to charges of piracy and hostage taking on Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for overtaking a yacht containing four American citizens. The...
A lawsuit by relatives of 9/11 victims has alleged that Iran knowingly aided al Qaeda in carrying out the attacks, according to affidavits filed Thursday. Included in...
Belarus' Minsk City Court delivered suspended sentences on Friday to two former presidential candidates, Uladzimer Nyaklyaeu and Vital Rymasheuski, convicted of organizing protests following the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in December....
A military court in Taiwan indicted a one-star general who confessed to spying for China on Friday. General Lo Hsien-che confessed to accepting bribes and divulging state secrets since March 2004. Due to his confession and relinquishment...
Japan announced Friday that they will be signing the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction at next week's G8 summit . Signatories of the Convention are required to return a child who...
