The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Wednesday affirmed the conviction of a Pakistani man tried for conspiring to bomb a New York City subway station. On appeal, Shahawar Matin Siraj (Matin) argued...
The Shanghai People's Higher Court will broadcast its hearings online, a Shanghai judge announced Tuesday. China began televising live court cases in 1998, and the internet broadcasts are the newest element of its effort to increase judicial...
US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) has criticized the Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) warrantless searches and seizures of travelers' laptops and other digital devices at the US border, calling the searches an unacceptable invasion of privacy...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) announced Wednesday that it will prepare a report on allegations of organ trafficking in Kosovo. Former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...
The New Zealand government and several Maori groups signed a deed of settlement Wednesday worth nearly NZ $196 million to resolve certain indigenous claims concerning land taken by British settlers in the 19th century. The deed of settlement agreement,...
Myanmar law allows the continued detention of pro-democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi , the government-run New Light of Myanmar insisted in an editorial Wednesday. The editorial cited Myanmar's 1975 "Law Safeguarding...
Malaysian Law Minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim Wednesday said legal reforms are needed to safeguard the independence of the country's judiciary. His remarks came in response to recent allegations that during his term of office, former PM Tun...
The US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday blocking the enforcement of employer-related provisions of Oklahoma's controversial immigration law . Judge Robin Cauthron concluded that...
The Virginia-based National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) brought a class action lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Monday, alleging on behalf of over 800 black farmers that the USDA improperly discriminated against them...
US prison officials said Friday that convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla will serve his approximately 17-year term at a "supermax" federal prison in Colorado. The maximum-security facility located in Florence also holds "Unabomber" Theodore...
