During the administration of former US president George W. Bush , the US government tortured opponents of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and transferred them to Libya, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Wednesday upheld a controversial provision of Arizona's immigration law that requires law enforcement officials to check the immigration status...
Planned Parenthood on Wednesday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its ruling which allows Texas to impose a funding ban on clinics affiliated with abortion providers...
Mauritanian authorities extradited former Libyan chief of intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi to Libya on Wednesday according to Mauritania state news agencies. Al-Senussi was arrested in Mauritania in March, and Libya is now seeking to try al-Senussi ...
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday published its annual report entitled State of the World's Human Rights , which details the human rights landscape across the world in 2011. Much of the report focuses on the pro-democracy protests...
The Supreme Court of Nepal on Thursday ordered the government to complete the final draft of the nation's new constitution by Sunday. The current administration had requested a three-month extension of the deadline, but the...
Ten Somali pirates were sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday in the Abu Dhabi Federal Criminal Court of First Instance. The men were convicted of highjacking the MV Arrilah-1, a UAE-owned ship hauling aluminum in the Arabian...
A Pakistani doctor was sentenced to 33 years in prison Wednesday for helping the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) locate Osama Bin Laden . After a trial lasting two months during which Shakeel Afridi was not...
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Kappos v. Hyatt that a patent applicant pursuing a 35 USC § 145 claim may introduce new evidence that could have been presented to...
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority that political organizations including the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization are immune from liability under the Torture Victims Protection...
