The Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice Wednesday suspended an order issued by the government's telecommunication commission requiring Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) to register as a "national audiovisual production service" or face...
China's Shanxi province High People's Court announced the conviction of 31 defendants in 18 separate trials for their involvement in the use of slave labor at various brick kilns in the Shanxi and Henan provinces Thursday. The defendants were...
UK Conservative Party leader William J. Hague repeated his earlier call for a general referendum on the proposed EU Reform Treaty during an interview with BBC Radio 4 Thursday, saying that...
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) convicted two former leaders of Sierra Leone's Civil Defense Forces militia Thursday, finding Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa guilty on four counts ...
The Bangladeshi Appellate Division of the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed can be detained and prosecuted under emergency laws declared by the interim emergency government, overturning the High Court...
The High Court of Australia upheld an interim control order against Joseph Terrence Thomas Thursday, accepting the government's argument and ruling that the control order provision of a controversial anti-terror law ...
Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a petition Wednesday under the Detainee Treatment Act (DTA) challenging the enemy combatant designation of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Sulaymon Barre, saying the US military violated governing...
The Congress of Guatemala voted to create the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) Wednesday, establishing an independent body to investigate organized crime and official corruption. The CICIG, which will...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sent a letter to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday in response to a request that Gonzales clarify testimony provided last week. Gonzales maintained...
Military doctors participating in the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay are violating medical ethics, according to commentary published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) . The three authors...
