Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday sent a joint letter to Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, urging an end to the violent crackdown by Nepalese government security forces against Tibetan...
The South Korean National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) said Tuesday that it will begin an official investigation of alleged human rights violations by North Korea, adding that it will begin the investigation by...
American Bar Association (ABA) President William H. Neukom said in an op-ed published on the ABA website Monday that American lawyers are "deeply troubled by six death penalty cases" being tried by the military commissions process...
An city official with Farmers Branch, Texas said Monday that city officials have accidentally issued several city rental license applications designed to enforce an anti-immigration measure , sending out the applications requiring...
Newly elected Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Monday that he will ask President Pervez Musharraf to immediately lift house arrest orders against former Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and other judges....
Turkish authorities Monday charged Turkish Workers' Party leader Dogu Perincek for his alleged involvement with a secular extremist group suspected of plotting to overthrow the ruling government headed by the Justice...
Three Indonesian Islamic militants sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings withdrew their second appeal Monday, after the Cilacap district court refused to grant a change of venue and transport...
A Pakistani court has cleared Asif Ali Zardari of charges related to his alleged involvement in the 1996 assassination of a retired judge and his son due to lack of evidence, a government prosecutor said Monday. Zardari,...
The US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California filed charges on Monday against San Francisco Bay maritime pilot John Joseph Cota for allegedly causing the negligent discharge of approximately 58,000 gallons...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has submitted incomplete and inaccurate information to be added to the US government's consolidated terrorist watchlist over the last three years, according to a report released Monday by the...
