Chief Justice of the High Court of Justice in Gaza Abdul Ra'ouf al-Halabi Sunday announced an order requiring female lawyers to wear traditional religious robes and headscarves or hijab for any court appearances....
President Barack Obama announced Friday that the United States will sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities . At a celebration commemorating the 19th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act...
The Obama administration is considering transferring more Guantanamo Bay detainees to the US, according to testimony Friday by US Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Charles Johnson to the the House Armed Services Committee . Some...
The Adawa court of misdemeanors in the Egyptian city of Menya Saturday reversed the conviction of Mounir Saeed Hannah, a teacher charged with insulting President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak by authoring an unpublished satirical poem....
A Pakistan anti-terrorism court Saturday began the trial of five men allegedly belonging to the Lakshar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group suspected of planning and coordinating the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai , according...
The US District Court of the Central District of California Friday ended the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) consent decree to federal oversight that the LAPD was forced into in 2001...
Former vice-president Dick Cheney directly ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to withhold from Congress information on a counterterrorism program kept secret for eight years until it was terminated by current CIA director Leon...
The Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program relied on a flawed legal analysis at its inception and produced results of questionable effectiveness, according to an unclassified version of a report released Friday by five government agencies....
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Friday a neighborhood motorist checkpoint program unconstitutionally violated plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights. The court overturned a ruling by the US District Court for the...
A Kenyan government delegation headed by Minister of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs Mutula Kilonzo Kenya pledged in a Friday meeting with International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Ocampo ...
