The Supreme Court of India on Monday rejected a bid to replace executions by hanging with lethal injections. The suit was brought by rights advocate Ashok Kumar Walia who maintained that hanging executions were cruel and painful...
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India high court rejects bid to replace hanging with lethal injection
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ICC prosecutors appeal decision not to charge Sudan president with genocide
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Second Circuit rules prisoners lack First Amendment rights to urge inmate strikes
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UN rights chief urges restraint, respect for due process in China ethnic violence
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Federal appeals court to rehear patent rules challenge
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Taylor trial at Sierra Leone war crimes court could take 4 years: prosecution
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Liberia truth commission recommends 30-year ban on president holding office
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Prisoner First Amendment rights ruling [2nd Circuit]
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UK military announces independent inquiry into Iraqi deaths
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US begins building Iraq correctional training center ahead of detainee transfer
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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday appealed the court's decision not to charge Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide. ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo ...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday affirmed a ruling that a prisoner's First Amendment rights are not violated if he is prohibited from writing material that encourages...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday called for restraint from all sides and a respect for due process in the ethnic unrest in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region , in which...
A federal appeals court on Monday ordered an en banc rehearing of a patent case that challenges new US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) rules . The US Court of Appeals for the Federal...
The prosecution warned the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Monday that the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor at The Hague could take four years to complete...
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf should be subject to public sanctions, including a 30-year ban on holding public office, for her role in supporting the country's 1997-2003 civil wars, according to a final report released...
Pilgrim v. Luther, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, July 6, 2009 [affirming a lower court's holding that a prisoner's First Amendment rights are not violated if he is prohibited from writing material that encourages inmates...
UK Secretary of State for Defence Bob Ainsworth announced Monday that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) was prepared to establish an independent inquiry into the deaths of 20 Iraqis at a British base outside of...
The US-led Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF) announced Monday that it had begun construction of a training facility for Iraqi corrections officers (ICO) in anticipation of transferring control of MNF detention facilities to Iraqi forces. Military police...
