The Dong Da district court in Vietnam on Monday convicted eight Catholics of disturbing public order and destroying property during protests over disputed land, but gave them light sentences, letting them all go free. Seven defendants received suspended sentences...

An Iranian court has sentenced 16 former employees of the Central Bank of Iran to jail and lashes for accepting bribes. According to an Iranian state radio broadcast , the staff members were convicted of accepting...

Leyla Zana , a Kurdish spokesperson and member of the European Union Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) , was sentenced Saturday to 10 years in prison for supporting the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) [BBC profile;...

The Montana First Judicial District ruled Friday that terminally ill patients in the state have the right to commit physician-assisted suicide. The case, Baxter v. Montana was brought by a number of terminally-ill Montanans,...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sought to prohibit government censorship of prisoners' testimony about alleged torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay in a motion filed Friday in military commission proceedings against...

The Kenyan government on Friday published a bill calling for a constitutional amendment allowing the replacement of the controversial Electoral Commission of Kenya which oversaw the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki in December 2007, leading...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Friday signed into law legislation authorizing the creation of a DNA database for convicted criminals, according to reports. Under the law, passed by the State Duma on November...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted five Blackwater USA guards involved in the September 2007 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians , according to reports. The Associated Press reported that...

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Friday ruled that an Egyptian Christian who could face torture in Egypt may challenge his deportation from the United...

The Russian State Duma on Friday gave first reading to a bill that would ban jury trials for terrorism, espionage, and treason, among other crimes. In a vote of 351 to 34 with...