Pakistani police Tuesday issued a "preliminary complaint" against approximately 200 journalists, opposition party members and pro-democracy activists who demonstrated outside the Pakistan parliament building Monday evening protesting an emergency media ordinance in defiance of a government ban on unauthorized...
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet urged members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to adopt measures to ensure the independence of UNHRC investigators . Speaking during a special UNHRC...
Nine suspects were arrested and charged Monday in the US Eastern District of California for allegedly plotting the violent overthrow of the Laotian government. The suspects, including General Vang Pao, a former general in the Royal...
Daniel McGowan was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday after pleading guilty last year to ecoterrorism charges, including participation in a criminal conspiracy and two counts of arson. McGowan was among ten defendants who...
US Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, the judge presiding over military commission proceedings against Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan Monday dismissed all charges against...
The US District Court for the Southern District of Texas sentenced Enron Broadband Services former COO Kevin Hannon to two years in prison Monday. Hannon, who was charged along with four other former Enron executives and...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York on Monday vacated a determination by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that Fox Television broadcasts violated the FCC's indecency and...
The military judge presiding over military commission proceedings against Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr Monday dismissed all charges against Khadr, citing a lack of jurisdiction. A Guantanamo...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday returned a government complaint against lawyers who allegedly made "humiliating" statements against the military and judiciary at a seminar that was attended by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry [official website;...
A Bangladeshi court Sunday ordered the continued detention of Abdul Jalil, the secretary general of the Bangladesh political party Awami League , on charges of corruption and misuse of power despite Jalil's lawyers' request that he be released...
