A former candidate in Egypt's presidential election and several non-government organizations filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging Egypt's interim constitution, which was put in place by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) . SCAF amended the...

The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court on Tuesday sentenced four former police officers for crimes committed during the Serbo-Croatian War in which around 20,000 people lost their lives. The four paramilitaries have been accused...

The Fair Elections Legal Network and three other rights groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit on behalf of several Florida citizens and organizations challenging the state's purging of voter rolls. The suit is...

Two leaders of the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday sent a letter to Chief Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court asking that the court consider televising a live broadcast of...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday sentenced the former captain at the Butare military academy, Ecole des Sous-Officiers, to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for violence perpetrated...

Eastman Kodak filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that Apple is illegally using its patented technology. The complaint alleges that Apple erroneously maintains ownership of technology developed when the two companies worked together in the early 1990s....

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed concern on Tuesday about the safety of the civilians in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ....

The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions published a report , released Tuesday, asking the US to clarify its policy of targeted killing of terrorism suspects through raids and unmanned drone strikes. Christof...

A special military court in Dhaka on Monday convicted 611 of the 621 accused in the 13th Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Battalion for their participation in the February 2009 mutiny . Only 10 soldiers...

The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (INR) , the body charged with investigating Nazi and communist-era crimes, on Tuesday began its investigation into crimes committed against Jewish women in a small northeastern Polish town during World...