Dutch timber trader Guus Kouwenhoven was sentenced to 19 years in prison by an appellate court in Den Bosch on Friday after he was found guilty of smuggling weapons into Liberia during that country's civil...

The UK Ministry of Justice announced on Friday plans to separate 28 "dangerous extremist" from the main stream prison population by placing them in one of three separation centers. Prisoners who are subject to separation are...

Spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) , Babar Baloch, said in a press release on Friday that over 11,000 refugees from the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have recently escaped to...

Seven human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch , on Thursday denounced the government of Equatorial Guinea for arresting Enrique Asumu and Alfredo Okenve, activists who lead the Center for Development Studies and Initiatives (CEID) [advocacy...

A special federal judicial panel in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Thursday ruled that the redistricting plan adopted by the Texas legislature was drawn to deliberately diminish the influence of...

The state of Arkansas on Thursday held the execution of Ledell Lee, the first in the state in 11 years. The sentence was carried out following the denial earlier that day by the US Supreme Court [official...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday formally approved the dismissal of over 21,000 drug convictions that were deemed to be "tainted" by a former state chemist's misconduct. This action has been deemed [CBS...

The Russia Supreme Court on Thursday granted the Russian government's request to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group. The court ruled that the group is an "extremist organization" and outlawed their activities in...

The Pakistan Supreme Court rejected calls on Thursday to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office stating that there was insufficient evidence concerning the corruption allegations against Sharif and his family to constitutionally...

On Wednesday law firm Hagens Berman filed a class action lawsuit in California's Northern District Court against car company Tesla over the self driving function in their vehicles. The lawsuit alleges that...