The editor of a website in China that called for political reform has been sentenced to six years in prison by the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang province for defaming the government. Zhang Jianhong [Reporters...
A defense lawyer for German Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel has been charged with incitement, attempting to thwart a prosecution, and using banned Nazi symbols during the original trial of Zundel in 2005. According to prosecutors at...
Japanese Internet entrepreneur Takafumi Horie , 34, was convicted of securities law violations on Friday and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Horie, whose rebellious style made him a media celebrity , received a...
Italy has asked the Italian Constitutional Court to cancel the indictments of 34 American and Italian intelligence officials in connection with the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian cleric...
The Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan Friday removed all restrictions on the liberty of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry , suspended for misconduct last week by President Pervez Musharraf ....
Lawmakers dismissed last week by Ecuador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) fought police as they tried to enter the Congress of Ecuador on Tuesday, sparking violence that led to the suspension of the legislature's activities for...
Charges were dropped Tuesday against the last of seven British soldiers accused of causing the 2003 death of Iraqi civilian Baha Musa . A military panel cleared Major Michael Peebles and Warrant Officer Mark Davies...
Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of a civil suit brought against Sudan by families of US military personnel killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inquiry report;...
A new law to protect private property in China was presented to the Chinese legislature on Thursday. The law, in the making since 1993, would define the scope of public and private property to advance the...
The Disability Law Center of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) on Thursday, saying the state's treatment of mentally ill prisoners violates the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act...
