More than 300 Kenyan journalists marched in the capital city of Nairobi Wednesday, voicing their opposition to a provision in a proposed law that would give courts the authority to force journalists to disclose confidential sources. The provision, part...
Jurors in the terror trial of Jose Padilla and co-defendants Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi began deliberations Wednesday after federal prosecutors and defense lawyers completed closing arguments . All three defendants...
Iranian judiciary spokesperson Alireza Jamshidi confirmed Wednesday that Iranian authorities have detained journalists Masoud Bastani, Farshed Gorbanpour, and Soheli Assefi, accusing the three of "publishing false statements and lies" about the Islamic Republic of Iran. Jamshidi said that Assefi,...
US forces in Iraq have detained an additional 5,000 people in the four months since the "troop surge" instituted by the Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) , increasing the number of detainees in American custody from approximately 18,000...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and ranking Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) have asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to postpone its implementation of proposed guidelines intended to limit how federal courts can review state-issued death...
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) should deploy observers to monitor the status of human rights in Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged in a briefing paper released Tuesday. HRW Africa director Peter...
A German state administrative court affirmed a ban on religious headscarves in the federal district of North Rhine-Westphalia Tuesday, rejecting a teacher's argument that her headscarf was merely a "fashion accessory" and ruling that...
A Bangladeshi court on Tuesday sentenced 15 members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to seven years for extortion and three years for manipulating elections. The defendants, twelve of whom were convicted in absentia, include BNP party...
Disagreements and rivalries between the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have hampered terror investigations, according to a report released Monday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) . The report, compiled...
Former Taiwanese opposition party leader Ma Ying-jeou was acquitted of corruption and accounting fraud charges by the Taipei District Court Tuesday. The court ruled that...
