US authorities on Wednesday charged 24 individuals with looting Native American artifacts from public land. The accused are charged with violations of the Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) and the Native American Graves...

Palau President Johnson Toribiong told the Associated Press Thursday that his offer to accept 17 Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo Bay was motivated by human rights concerns and not by the Chinese...

Chinese human rights lawyer Li Fangping has challenged a government mandate requiring Internet filter software on all new personal computers, according to media reports Thursday. Fangping demanded public hearings from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Wednesday that the Turkish government is responsible for the death of a woman at the hands of her ex-husband. The court found that in failing...

The US House Judiciary Committee voted 29-0 Wednesday to approve four articles of impeachment against US district court judge Samuel Kent based on his conviction for obstruction of justice...

Three US contractors arrested for the killing of another contractor will be released due to insufficient evidence against them, their lawyers said Wednesday. Two other men are still being held , but are expected to be released...

Loi favorisant la diffusion et la protection de la creation sur internet, French Constitutional Court, June 10, 2009 . Read the full text of the judgment...

Secretary of State for the Home Department v. AF, et al., UK House of Lords, June 10, 2009 ....

A naturalized American citizen believed to have ties to a Canadian terrorist cell was convicted Wednesday of conspiracy to commit terrorism in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia . Syed Haris...

The French Constitutional Council ruled Wednesday that certain provisions of the proposed Internet piracy law violate the French Constitution . The challenge was brought by...