China's new "Enterprise Bankruptcy" law came into effect Friday, officially introducing broad sweeping regulations governing the resolution of outstanding business debts for the first time in China , which is gradually amending its laws to address the...
Jack Kevorkian , a former doctor convicted of second degree murder for assisting the suicide of a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease, was released from prison in Michigan Friday after serving 8 years. Kevorkian, who will remain on...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Friday confirmed the transfer to The Hague of newly arrested Bosnian Serb war crimes indictee Zdravko Tolimir . Tolimir, a former...
The US District Court for the District of Colombia Thursday dismissed a derivative lawsuit filed by shareholders of home financial services corporation Fannie Mae to force former CEO Franklin D. Raines, former CFO J. Timothy...
Myanmar's extended detention of democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi violates the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights , the UN...
A Polish court Thursday sentenced 15 riot police officers involved in the 1981 shooting deaths of nine coal miners, handing down sentences ranging from eleven years to at least two and half years in prison. The coal miners were...
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence questioned whether the secret CIA detention and interrogation program "is the best means to obtain a full and reliable intelligence debriefing of a detainee" in a report published...
US military officials Thursday identified a deceased Saudi Arabian detainee who apparently committed suicide at the military prison Wednesday as Abdul Rahman Ma'ath Thafir al-Amri. Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) said in press release...
Zhao Bingzhi, president of the criminal law research committee of the China Law Society told China Daily Thursday that China is preparing to enact anti-terrorism legislation , which Zhao described as a "separate...
Zdravko Tolimir , a former Bosnian Serb general and a UN-indicted war crimes suspect, has been arrested, according to Thursday media reports. Tolimir, a close aide to war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic [ICTY...
