The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday indicted five men for contempt over allegations of witness tampering. Two indictees include former leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council...

US citizen and convicted terrorist Jose Padilla , represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , Wednesday appealed the dismissal of his lawsuit against government officials over his detention in a military prison....

The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday announced that Bahrain has agreed to permit a UN commission to investigate human rights violations related to pro-democratic...

A Philippine court on Tuesday froze USD $23 million worth of assets owned by the Ampatuan family, who are accused of ordering the killing of 57 people. The Philippines Department of Justice (PDOJ) had implicated Andal Ampatuan...

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday reaffirmed a ruling he issued two weeks ago striking down a ban on corporate donations to...

Former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Tuesday reissued an appeal for release on parole that was returned to him due to insufficient documentation. Khodorkovsky has served half of a 13-year...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday criticized Kyrgyzstan's lack of judicial progress, marking the one-year anniversary of the June 2010 ethnic violence that resulted in more...

California Governor Jerry Brown submitted a plan Tuesday to reduce the state's prison population by over 30,000 inmates to satisfy a court order to reduce prison overcrowding ....

Former Icelandic prime minister Geir Haarde pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he was grossly negligent for failing to stop the nation's banking collapse during the 2008 financial crisis . Haarde vowed...

Egypt officially declared the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) legal Tuesday for the first time since the powerful political organization's inception nearly 80 years ago. An Egyptian elections commission approved the formation of the...