Afzal Guru , a Kashmiri militant who received the death penalty for participating in the 2001 attack on India's parliament , was executed on Saturday. Guru was hanged after India's president, Shri Pranab Mukherjee ,...

Egypt's administrative court ordered the country's National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) on Friday to block YouTube because it carried the controversial amateur film Innocence of Muslims . The amateur film sparked violent...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that a settlement has been reached with Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC, known by the public as Macmillan , over allegations that the publishing company conspired with Apple...

The Congress of the Philippines on Wednesday passed a bill to protect the rights of more than one million internally displaced persons (IDPs). The bill was praised by the UN Refugee Agency [official...

The Arkansas Senate on Thursday approved revisions to the state's lethal injection law. The Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the 2009 version of the law last year, finding that a provision allowing the...

Senegal's newly-created Extraordinary African Chambers officially opened on Friday to prepare for the prosecution of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre . Senegal's national assembly adopted a law in December allowing for the creation of the special tribunal [JURIST...

Turkey's parliament on Thursday approved legislation to prohibit terrorism financing. In passing this legislation , Turkey may have narrowly avoided expulsion from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) . Turkish President Abduallah Gul...

An appeals court judge in Haiti on Thursday ordered former president Jean-Claude Duvalier to face charges of abusing human rights. Duvalier returned to Haiti in 2011 after 25 years in exile, prompting an investigation...

US District Judge James Robart on Thursday restricted the patent lawsuit by Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility against Microsoft . The judge ruled that certain parts of three different Motorola patents were not valid. Motorola has sought...

Amnesty International (AI) and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) on Wednesday called upon Haiti to ensure that Jean-Claude Duvalier is brought to justice. Duvalier returned to Haiti in 2011 after 25 years in...