Hundreds of Sri Lankan lawyers and citizens took to the streets of Colombo on Monday to protest the impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake , the chief justice and lone woman on the country's Supreme Court. The protesters waved placards...
A moratorium has been enacted on Malawi's laws barring same-sex marriage and homosexuality, Malawi Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara announced on Monday. According to him, the laws were suspended to enable to the country...
Five men accused of planning the 9/11 attacks do not have to attend court proceedings against them, a military judge ruled Monday. Army Col. James Pohl ruled that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ,...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday opened the trial of Goran Hadzic , the last suspect to be tried by the court. Hadzic, one 161 people tried by...
A UK immigration tribunal has ruled that man who says he was paid to kill civilians in Sudan may remain in the UK indefinitely. The 27-year-old man, whose identity has not been revealed, is...
Lawyers and judges from Sri Lanka held a large-scale protest on Monday to express their dismay over the assault of an outspoken judge and to call for a thorough, impartial investigation into the incident. Nearly 500 judges, lawyers and...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on Monday released a report urging justice for victims of international law violations that occurred Nepal's civil war. Approximately 13,000 people were...
A investigator for the Charles Taylor defense team in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) was arrested Saturday on charges of contempt. Prince Taylor is accused of interfering...
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) announced Monday that it has filed a lawsuit challenging a California law that bans sexual orientation therapy for minors. California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed...
The rule of law continues to deteriorate in Egypt , and human rights abuses are occurring with alarming frequency, according to two reports released Tuesday by Amnesty International (AI) . In the report "Egypt: Brutality...
