Argentina federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral on Thursday authorized the arrest of former Iran President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other Iranian officials for their alleged roles the AMIA Jewish cultural center bombing...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) held a hearing Thursday to determine whether there was enough evidence to proceed to trial in the case against a Congolese militia leader. Thomas Lubanga [Trial Watch backgrounder;...
The Ethiopian government is responsible for the deaths of thousands of student protestors and demonstrators over the past 15 years, Judge Teshale Aberra told the Guardian in an interview Wednesday. Aberra, who was president of the Oromia Supreme Court...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Wednesday applauded the resignation of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as a "step in the right direction" and urged Congress to launch an investigation ...
Kyrgyzstan opposition party members and pro-government supporters announced Tuesday that they had reached a compromise in an effort to reform the country's constitution . Members of the country's parliament are expected to vote...
Iraq's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that 57 members of its Shiite-led police force have been charged with torturing hundreds of detainees at a prison in eastern Baghdad. This is the first time the Iraqi government has filed charges against...
Lawyers in Jordan held a one-hour strike Tuesday to protest the death sentences imposed over the weekend against Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in the Dujail crimes against humanity case [JURIST news archive; BBC trial...
The retrial of two British National Party (BNP) officials on charges of inciting racial hatred began Wednesday in the UK, with hundreds of supporters protesting outside the Leeds Crown Court. BNP leader Nick Griffin [Wikipedia...
The United States is violating its universal human rights obligations by its failure to protect millions of illegal immigrant workers from exploitation and discrimination in the workplace, according to a petition filed with the Inter-American...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has refused to rule on whether the European Constitution conforms with the German Constitution until a final decision on its ratification has been made. The German parliament ratified the...
