A coalition of international and African human rights groups Monday criticized Senegal for delays in the prosecution of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre and called on the African...
A Pakistani court Monday blocked Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) head and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from running for parliament, finding that a prior criminal conviction rendered him ineligible for office. Earlier this month, the...
The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear seven cases , including Ministry of Defense and Support for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi (07-615) [docket; cert....
The US Supreme Court handed down three decisions Monday, including Rothgery v. Gillespie County , in which the Court ruled 8-1 that a person accused of a felony has the...
A US military judge at Guantanamo Bay Thursday set October 8 as the date for the military commission trial of Canadian-born Omar Khadr . Khadr's military defense lawyer Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler said that...
Former Serbian chief of state security Radomir Markovic was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for his role in a 1999 assassination attempt on then-Yugoslav opposition leader Vuk Draskovic . The Supreme Court of Serbia also sentenced...
Italy's highest court of appeal, the Court of Cassation , Thursday ruled that Italian courts lack jurisdiction to try a US soldier accused of shooting an intelligence agent in Iraq. Last year, Italian prosecutors filed an...
The US Supreme Court handed down five decisions Thursday, including MetLife v. Glenn , in which the Court ruled 6-3 that an employee benefit plan administrator has an illegal conflict...
The Swedish parliament Tuesday rejected a proposed warrantless wiretap law that would have given the National Defence Radio Establishment wide leeway to eavesdrop on international telephone and electronic communications passing through the country. The...
US President George W. Bush Wednesday called for Congress to relax restrictions on oil exploration , saying that it should end a long-standing prohibition against offshore oil drilling and also allow drilling to begin in...
