A Bangkok criminal court on Wednesday sentenced Chiranuch Premchaiporn, webmaster of independent Internet news site Prachatai , to an eight-month suspended sentence for failing to delete defamatory comments against Thailand's royal family. She was initially sentenced to one...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday sentenced former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison for war crimes committed during the decade-long civil war...
King County Superior Court Judge Sharon Armstrong on Tuesday denied a motion for preliminary injunction against Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna over his participation in a health care challenge. The motion brought by...
Pakistani judges are being pressured to apply a controversial blasphemy law , UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Gabriela Knaul reported on Tuesday. In her initial...
A French court ruled Tuesday that Google is not liable for damages to French television company TF1 for copyrighted sports and movies that were uploaded on YouTube . TF1 brought the suit...
Turkish police on Tuesday arrested six former military officials for their involvement in the 1997 coup which led Turkey's Islamist-led government to resign. The six officials were among the 10 suspects prosecutors included in their arrest warrants. They have...
An Istanbul criminal court on Monday unanimously approved a 144-page indictment against four Israeli military leaders for their involvement in the killing of nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists during the May 2010 flotilla incident . The prosecution is...
Jacques Mungwarere, a former Rwandan school teacher, pleaded not guilty before the Ontario Superior Court Monday to two charges relating to his involvement in the Rwandan genocide . Mungwarere was charged with one...
An Israeli military court on Sunday sentenced Palestinian protest leader Bassem al-Tamimi to 13 months imprisonment for encouraging youth to throw rocks at Israeli soldiers. He was charged with urging the youth to throw the rocks during...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed disappointment Monday with Nepal for its failure to meet the Sunday deadline to write a new constitution. With the country's failure to draft a new constitution, Ban...
