A group of UN independent human rights experts on Tuesday urged Iran to end the recent crackdown on journalists and to release those who have been already been detained. The group includes the Special Rapporteur on freedom...
Colonel James Pohl, the military judge presiding over the trial of suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , on Monday ordered a mental health examination for the defendant to determine whether he is competent to stand...
Vietnamese authorities on Wednesday released and deported Vietnamese-American pro-democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan after nine months of detention. Quan was arrested on terrorism charges for planning protests in support of a banned group of US exiles, the...
A Chinese court has sentenced two Tibetans for inciting self-immolation according to a Thursday report from Xinhua , China's state news agency. The two men were charged with intentional homicide after inciting and coercing eight people...
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder sent a letter to the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court on Monday requesting an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of the state's right to work law. Under...
Myanmar's state-run newspaper Myanma Ahlin reported Tuesday that President Thein Sein abolished Order No. 2/88, which banned gathering and delivering speeches in public by a group of five or more people. The order, which was established in...
The UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) on Thursday announced a disbursement of $1.3 billion to two claimants who suffered damages during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The two...
Judge Harry Leinenweber of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday issued a 35-year prison sentence to David Coleman Headley for his role in the 2008 terror attacks in...
Pakistan's Foreign Affairs Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Tuesday condemned US drone attacks as a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and international law. Khar stated that the drone attacks are "counterproductive" and that she plans...
A Turkish court on Monday charged nine lawyers for membership in an outlawed group under Turkey's anti-terrorism laws. The lawyers, including some human rights advocates , are accused of being associated with the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (RPLP)...
