Sudan is merely going through the motions with its planned probe into Darfur human rights violations, said International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo in an interview with the Sudan Tribune on Monday. Moreno-Ocampo...
The Philippines House of Representatives passed a bill on Monday to create a new national commission meant to guarantee the rights of Muslims citizens. The bill creates a National Commission on Muslim Filipinos to...
Georgia is forcibly detaining Russian citizens within its borders in violation of international law, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in a Monday communication with Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev. In the communication, Medvedev instructed Nurgaliev to...
Qwest Communications will pay an additional $40 million to settle a class action shareholder lawsuit, according to an agreement released Monday in the company's second quarter earnings report . Of that number, $5 million comes...
Detained Myanmarian democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi has met with a lawyer to discuss the legality of her detention, a spokesman for the National League for Democracy party said Sunday. This was apparently...
According to high-level supporters on Friday, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has affirmed his June vow that he will neither step down nor go into exile, despite the recent pressure from opposition forces....
An August 17 trial date has been set for five Sudanese men accused of killing John Granville, an aid worker affiliated with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) , Sudan's state media reported Friday. Following the January...
US District Judge James Robertson on Thursday ruled in a 12-year class action lawsuit concerning the US government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500,000 Native Americans. Plaintiffs...
An Indian Supreme Court judge on Friday withdrew from hearing a judicial bribery case after lawyers accused the court of protecting corrupt judges. Justice B.N. Agrawal said that he refused to consider unsubstantiated accusations against...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a so-called "sore loser" election law in South Carolina. Under the law, a candidate that seeks...
