An Australian judge on Wednesday froze the profits from a memoir written by former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . Hicks spent more than five years without trial in US custody after being captured...
An American Indian tribe in Washington state on Monday voted to adopt a new law recognizing same-sex marriage . The law, approved by the Suquamish Tribe council, extends marriage rights to same-sex couples...
The Constitutional Affairs Committee , an Italian parliamentary commission, on Tuesday approved a draft law that bans women from wearing full-face veils, including the Islamic burqa [JURIST...
Russian investigators on Tuesday reopened a case against former lawyer and purported whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in November 2009. Magnitsky was arrested on allegations of tax fraud after implicating Russian police in...
A Vietnamese court on Tuesday began hearing the appeal of well-known lawyer and activist Cu Huy Ha Vu, who was convicted in April of carrying out anti-state propaganda. Vu was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment and...
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was not in contempt of court for destroying videotapes thought to have shown harsh interrogations of terror suspects, but ordered the CIA...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama challenging an Alabama law that expands restrictions on...
An Austrian court on Friday rejected Serbia's extradition request for former Bosnian general and suspected war criminal Jovan Divjak. The court ruled that Divjak likely would not receive a fair trial if he were extradited, expressing concerns...
The Jerusalem District Court on Monday ruled that suspected Bosnian war criminal Aleksander Cvetkovic could be extradited to Bosnia to stand trial for crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War . Bosnian authorities claim that Cvetkovic...
The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will be televised live, the trial judge announced Monday. The trial will also be held at the national police academy in a room large enough...
