A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a South Florida man to 10 years in prison and revoked his citizenship for concealing his involvement in a Guatemalan peasant massacre on his US immigration forms. Authorities claimed that Gilberto Jordan committed...
Lebanon should improve its judicial system by providing mechanisms to better protect the basic rights of domestic workers and more ardently prosecuting those who violate them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report ...
A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California on Thursday struck down the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy, which bans...
An Ontario Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that the Canadian Blood Services (CBS) is justified in prohibiting sexually active gay males from donating blood. In 2002, Kyle Freeman falsely denied having had sex with other men and...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that Austria's state gambling monopoly, which blocks foreign casino companies from the licensing process, is incompatible with EU law. The court held that allowing only domestic operators...
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang said Friday that last month's trial of four men sentenced to death for a 2009 attack on the presidential palace was fair. Obiang stated that the country's laws were respected, and procedures guaranteeing a...
Judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) warned Friday that the genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic may take another four yearstwo years longer than expected. As the UN...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Wednesday on Bahraini authorities to make a prompt investigation into torture allegations made by four Shia activists who have been detained for more than two weeks. On August 27, after...
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki signed a new constitution into law Friday as part of a reform movement aimed at curbing vast presidential powers. Kenya's new constitution includes numerous checks on presidential authority , among...
Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they would dismiss all charges against Robert Blagojevich, the brother of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich . Robert Blagojevich faced four counts for his suspected involvement in the alleged conspiracy to sell...
