Beijing's Chaoyang District Court on Friday rejected the appeal brought by dissident artist Ai Weiwei challenging the government's imposition of 15 million yuan (USD $2.4 million) tax evasion penalty. The fine was leveled against Fake Cultural Development...

US lawmakers on Tuesday expressed concern over the use of drone strikes. At a hearing in the US House Committee on Homeland Security lawmakers called on Congress and the Department of Homeland Security to...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Thursday appealed his conviction and 50-year sentence for war crimes committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone . Taylor's appeal states that the...

US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday temporarily stayed a Maryland Court of Appeals ruling that police could not collect DNA from individuals arrested for violent crimes and burglaries. The appeals...

The Bundestag , the lower house of the German parliament, is expected to vote on a bill that would protect religious circumcision in Germany. The session came a week...

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) released its annual mid-year report summarizing some of the trends observed in 2012 in the ongoing US reproductive rights controversy and highlighting some of what the CRR considers the...

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court ruled Thursday that it does not have jurisdiction over two cases related to the decree issued by the newly elected President Mohammed Morsi to reconvene parliament and the constitutional declaration...

The Brennan Center for Justice released a report on Tuesday describing the burden on Americans who must obtain government-issued photo ID to comply with restrictive state voter ID laws. The Challenge of Obtaining Voter Identification [report, PDF;...

A Tunisian military court on Thursday sentenced the country's former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in absentia to life in prison for his involvement in the killing of 43 protesters during last year's...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Wednesday offered its services to aid the government of Ethiopia in a proposed review of its anti-terrorism and civil society legislation. High...