Russian Judge Viktor Danilkin, who convicted former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky of money-laundering and embezzlement in December, did not write the verdict and was coerced into reading it [interview text,...
Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has been placed under house arrest , according to his website Saham News . On Thursday morning, security forces reportedly took control of...
The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) met on Monday to define key terms related to the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . In particular, the STL...
Russia's Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights will look into the verdicts handed down against former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev . During a recent...
Kazakhstan's Constitutional Council on Monday rejected a proposed referendum that would have extended the presidency of Nursultan Nazarbayev until 2020. According to the council, the proposal, which entailed cancellation...
More than 1,000 protesters have been detained in Egypt as demonstrations against the 30-year reign of President Hosni Mubarak entered their third day on Thursday. Protests were held Thursday in Egypt's capital Cairo, as well as...
Three Indonesian soldiers accused of torturing Papuan detainees received prison sentences Monday of less than one year. Citing lack of evidence , a military judge convicted the men of the lesser crime of insubordination instead of torture....
Four people, including former UN spokesperson Michele Montas, filed criminal complaints on Wednesday against former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier . Montas, who worked for the UN under Ban-Ki Moon, as well as Alix Fils-Aime and...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Tuesday that California state employees can sue for discrimination over the exclusion of their same-sex spouses from long-term health care programs. The Obama...
Iran is on an "execution binge," killing one prisoner every eight hours, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said in a statement released on Sunday. Forty-seven prisoners have reportedly been executed in Iran since...
