Both the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have committed human rights violations by attacking civilians in the Vanni region, according to a...

Under the leadership of successive Labour Party governments the UK Parliament has systematically infringed on freedoms and rights of individual British citizens over the past decade, according to a report released Thursday by the Convention...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maine on Wednesday dismissed charges of making false statements against former Republican National Committee regional director James Tobin [SourceWatch...

The Moscow Military District Court on Friday acquitted three men suspected of being involved in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The three men, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, were released  after a...

Former Yugoslav National Army officer Miroslav Radic on Wednesday sued Serbia for the four years and six months he was detained during his trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Radic...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ordered the UK to pay £2,500 in damages to Islamic cleric Abu Qataba after determining that he was imprisoned by...

Judge Abdul-Amir al-Rubaie of the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI) on Thursday postponed the trial of Muntadar al-Zaidi , the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoes at former US president...

The England and Wales Court of Appeals (Civil Division) on Wednesday refused to clarify Britain's law banning assisted suicide in an action initiated by a British woman suffering from multiple sclerosis. Debbie Purdy, who was...

Sweden's Migration Court on Wednesday granted asylum to former Uighur Guantanamo Bay detainee Adil Hakimjan , also known as Adel Abdu Al-Hakim. The...

US Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that, despite landmark court decisions and legislation bolstering the official recognition of racial equality, the US remains a country that has not truly resolved its racial divide. Holder,...