A Rwandan court on Tuesday convicted opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza of treason and genocide denial, sentencing her to eight years in prison. Ingabire was acquitted on charges of terrorism and promoting...
The Dane County Circuit Court on Monday denied Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen's request to delay invalidating certain provisions of a controversial law limiting the collective bargaining rights of...
Iran hanged ten men on Monday despite requests from the United Nations (UN) and Amnesty International (AI) to stay the executions. According to the Iranian judiciary those who were killed were...
Libyan government lawyers on Tuesday urged International Criminal Court (ICC) judges to allow Saif al-Islam to be tried in Libya, promising a fair trial for the son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi...
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged Syria to release a prominent human rights lawyer and his friend believed to be detained by security forces. AI contends that both men should be released immediately unless they...
Google and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) on Thursday announced a settlement over Google's book-scanning initiative . Authors and publishers have alleged that Google was illegally profiting off of their works by...
A judge for the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday preventing Pennsylvania's voter identification law from taking effect for the upcoming presidential election. On remand from the Supreme Court...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday lifted an injunction against Samsung which banned the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 . After losing...
A Rwandan businessman pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide during Norway's first genocide trial. Sadi Bugingo is accused of taking a lead role in planning and...
Three armed Islamist groups in northern Mali are abusing the local population and employing child soldiers , Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. According to interviews that HRW conducted over the past several weeks, three rebel...
