The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) on Friday accused former Cabinet minster William Ruto of interfering with the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into the 2007 post-election violence , denying accusations...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday published an open letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder , urging him to investigate former president George W. Bush ...

The trial of eight men accused of killing Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) human rights activist Floribert Chebeya began in the capital city of Kinshasa on Friday. The eight accused men are all DRC policemen, but...

A Lebanese military court on Friday convicted cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed of terrorism and sentenced him to life in prison. Bakri was found guilty of belonging to an armed group that plotted to carry out terrorist acts...

The Azerbaijani Supreme Court on Thursday partially overturned the convictions of imprisoned Azeri journalist Enyulla Fatullayev. The court vacated Fatullayev's convictions for committing defamation and inciting terror and ethnic hatred and ruled that...

European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes on Thursday said that existing regulations to ensure net neutrality are adequate for the time being . Kroes spoke following a four-month fact-finding period on...

Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by seven same-sex couples seeking rights equal to married couples. The lawsuit, filed in July by the American...

The Obama administration filed a brief Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court not to rescind the stay preventing suspension of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST...

The Supreme Court of the Republic of China Thursday reduced the 12-year prison sentences for former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian and his wife to 11 years each for bribery charges....

The High Court of Australia on Thursday ruled unanimously that two Sri Lankan men held offshore on Christmas Island had been denied procedural fairness. The court stated that the government wrongfully denied the asylum seekers,...