Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf was arrested on Thursday for charges relating to the death of radical cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi who died during an operation ordered by Musharraf on Islamabad's Red Mosque, which...

The Court of Appeal for British Columbia on Thursday upheld Canada's law against doctor-assisted suicide. Justice Lynn Smith for the Supreme Court of British Columbia had ruled last year that the provisions of Canada's...

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Wednesday indicted Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Zahid Hossain Khokon in absentia on war crimes charges stemming from the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will serve his 50-year sentence for war crimes in the UK, according to a written statement to Parliament from the UK Ministry of Justice [official...

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday reopened criminal proceedings for a man convicted of war crimes in 2006, after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in July that his...

California Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed a bill that allows nurse practitioners and other non-physicians to perform an early abortion during the first trimester. The bill was introduced due to a lack of physicians who...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar , Tomas Ojea Quintana, on Wednesday welcomed a recent release of 56 prisoners of conscience in Myanmar through presidential amnesty. Quintana noted...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Wednesday. In United States v. Woods the court heard arguments on whether 26 USC § 6662 of the Internal Revenue...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) filed suit on Wednesday challenging the inclusion of three abortion-related amendments in the state budget passed in June. Filed on behalf of a Cleveland-based women's health clinic,...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, urged the Belarusian government on Wednesday to immediately cease executions of its citizens until legislation related to capital punishment and the court system can be...