Dissident artist Ai Weiwei was banned on Wednesday from attending the first hearing in the case brought by his company, Fake Cultural Development Ltd., against Beijing tax authorities. The court was also closed to filming ,...
The new Senegalese government should take this opportunity to protect and promote human rights by addressing the impunity that undermines the judicial system and rule of law in the country, Amnesty International (AI) said on Wednesday. In...
Sudan's Ministry of Justice on Tuesday appointed a new special prosecutor for crimes committed in Darfur . Justice Minister Mohamed Bushara Dousa announced Yasir Ahmed Mohamed, a senior counselor, as the new prosecutor...
Integrative human rights and environmental protection laws and policies should be implemented to achieve sustainable development, according to a joint report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN Environment Programme...
The District Court of The Hague on Wednesday ruled in favor of Samsung Electronics against Apple in a patent infringement case. All About Phones reported that the...
The Constitutional Court of Kuwait on Wednesday held that this year's election for the new parliament was unconstitutional and the previous parliament of 2009 should be reinstated, state agency Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) ...
The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court on Tuesday sentenced four former police officers for crimes committed during the Serbo-Croatian War in which around 20,000 people lost their lives. The four paramilitaries have been accused...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday sentenced the former captain at the Butare military academy, Ecole des Sous-Officiers, to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for violence perpetrated...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed concern on Tuesday about the safety of the civilians in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ....
A special military court in Dhaka on Monday convicted 611 of the 621 accused in the 13th Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Battalion for their participation in the February 2009 mutiny . Only 10 soldiers...
