The State Council Information Office (SCIO) on Monday published its second National Human Rights Action Plan . The plan succeeds a previous plan covering 2009-2010 period and will address...

Google has reached a settlement with a group of French authors, ending a lawsuit challenging its book-scanning initiative , which displayed scanned images of select pages of books, according to a joint statement [text,...

More than 1,300 people filed a criminal complaint on Monday against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for causing the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and for the plaintiffs' resulting radiation. The...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Israel on Sunday not to enforce its "Anti-Infiltration" policy, claiming the law violates asylum-seekers' "basic rights." According to HRW, Israel will soon begin enforcing the new law which reflects amendments...

Lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio asked the US District Court for the District of Arizona in a motion on Friday to dismiss the lawsuit pending against him that claims his office discriminated against...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled unanimously to allow 17 media groups unfettered viewing access at future executions, overturning a Tuesday ruling from Idaho. The court...

US Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two US Attorneys on Friday to investigate recent "leaks" of classified information. The investigation will run concurrently with an FBI investigation, and the US Attorneys are empowered to prosecute...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said Saturday that four ICC staff members have been detained in Libya since Thursday. They traveled to Libya Wednesday to meet with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi ,...

Defense lawyers for the alleged architect of the USS Cole bombing, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , on Friday requested that the court allow for worldwide broadcast of the Guantanamo trial, instead of limited broadcast...

A court in Thailand sentenced former Indian financier Rakesh Saxena to 10 years in prison on Friday for embezzling tens of millions of dollars from a bank in Thailand during the 1990s. The Bangkok South Criminal Court, found Saxena...