Mullah Krekar, the founder of the Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group Ansar Al Islam , pleaded not guilty before a Norwegian district court on Wednesday to charges of condoning suicide bombings and making death threats against politicians. The prosecutor...
A military judge on Tuesday denied the request of suspected USS Cole bomber and Guantanamo inmate Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri to question Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as a witness in his case....
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay , in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Monday, called for the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International...
The US Department of State (DOS) on Monday dispatched a team of international law experts to Haiti to assess how to reinforce the Haitian judiciary's power and independence, according to Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille [official website,...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday urged the international community to take action to protect Syrian civilians. Pillay argued that the failure of the UN Security Council to agree...
Attorneys for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer filed an opening brief with the US Supreme Court on Monday, asking the court to lift an injunction that has blocked many contentious provisions of a state...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) accepted a plea agreement on Tuesday in which Jelena Rasic, the case manager for Bosnian war criminal Milan Lukic, pleaded guilty [amended indictment,...
A French genocide denial ban passed last week stalled on Tuesday after two groups of French politicians challenged the law's constitutionality. The opposition groups, which include members in both the Senate and the National...
The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday authorized the use of television cameras and other recording devices in state courts . The order permits "extended media coverage" in courtrooms, which entails broadcasting of proceedings...
The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a trial court must review a lawsuit challenging a Minnesota law prohibiting gay marriage . The plaintiffs are three same-sex couples who were married in...
