The Supreme Court of Pakistan judge presiding over a case challenging the legality of President Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid said Thursday that the court is unlikely to rule in the case until mid-November. The court has previously...
Former Milberg Weiss partner William Lerach pleaded guilty to conspiracy Monday for his part in the firm's illegal kickback scheme. Lerach reached an agreement with prosecutors last month to plead guilty to conspiracy...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that Russia's arrest and pre-trial detention of former Yukos executive Platon Lebedev violated Lebedev's right to liberty and security under Article 5...
Myanmar agreed Monday to accept a visit by UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro ahead of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit meetings next month. Pinheiro has been blocked from visiting...
Rwandan genocide suspect Dominique Ntawukuriryayo has been arrested in France, a UN spokesperson said Thursday. Ntawukuriryayo, a former public official, had been on the run from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) , where he...
US military judge Col. Peter Brownback on Monday said that military commission proceedings against Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr would resume November 8. Brownback's ruling comes despite Khadr's appeal challenging the earlier decision...
Rwandan Information Minister Laurent Nkusi said Thursday that the government of Rwanda has completed setting up a commission charged with investigating the 1994 assassination of then-Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana . The downing of the plane carrying the Hutu...
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against private security contractor Blackwater USA Thursday on behalf of an injured survivor and the families of 3 men killed during a September 16 shooting...
A Bangladesh court Monday convicted former Home Minister Mohammed Nasim of corruption and sentenced him to 13 years in jail. Nasim's wife was also sentenced in absentia to three years for aiding her husband in accumulating property through "dishonest...
