Saidjahan Zainabiddinov, an Uzbek human rights activist who witnessed an violent uprising in Andijan last May has been put on trial on charges of undermining the constitutional system and assisting terrorism for aiding journalists covering the uprising...
The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Hudson v. Michigan where it will decide whether police officers were justified in entering a plaintiff's home without knocking when they arrived with...
Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, an Indiana truck driver accused of offering to sell names of US covert operatives to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government. Charges against Shaaban laid last...
The trial of three former police officers for the murder of prominent Ukraine opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze has begun in Kiev. Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych are accused of carrying out the killing in September...
The trial of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri , charged under the UK Terrorism Act 2000 for inciting racial hatred, began in London on Monday. Hamza was arrested last May on a US extradition warrant, and...
A British judge on Thursday said that Haroon Rashid Aswat , a British citizen wanted in the US on suspicion of setting up a terrorist training camp, could be extradited to the United States. Aswat was arrested in...
Lawyers for former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling on Wednesday afternoon filed a motion to move the location of the trial, where both defendants face charges of conspiracy and...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday appealed to Egyptian authorities in an attempt to prevent the deportation of 654 Sudanese refugees whom Cairo authorities say are in the country illegally. Also Wednesday, US-based rights...
A US-based Sikh group has announced Tuesday that it will use EU anti-discrimination law to challenge a current French law banning religious dress , including Sikh turbans, in state schools. United Sikhs claims...
Victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston priests have rejected an archdiocese settlement offer , lawyers said Tuesday. The proposal, which came late last month, offered average payments of $75,000 per person, and...
