Russian authorities are wrongly indicting thousands of citizens every year, Russian Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika said Tuesday at a Moscow meeting held to discuss compensation for those falsely charged. Chaika said that in...

Riley v. Kennedy, US Supreme Court, May 27, 2008 [holding that returning to a previous election law when a new one was struck down by the Supreme Court of Alabama was not a violation of the Voter Rights Act, which...

CBOCS West v. Humphries, US Supreme Court, May, 27, 2008 . Read the full text...

Gomez-Perez v. Potter, US Supreme Court, May 27, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's...

Zimbabwe will not return former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to Ethiopia to face a death sentence, a Zimbabwean Information Ministry official said Tuesday. The Ethiopian Supreme Court sentenced Mengistu to death in absentia...

A Chilean judge Monday ordered the arrest of 98 people suspected of covering up over 100 kidnappings and murders during the 1973-1990 rule of former military dictator Augusto Pinochet . The court's investigation is focused...

The US Supreme Court handed down three decisions Tuesday, including two cases involving alleged employer retaliation . In Gomez-Perez v. Potter , the Court held 6-3 that a provision...

The five states that border the Arctic - Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the US - will meet in Greenland Wednesday to discuss plans to divide harvesting rights to resources and minerals on the Arctic seabed. Under...

Former Peruvian general Rodolfo Robles testified Monday that he believed that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was responsible for two massacres that took place during his presidency in the early 1990s, but admitted that...

The ruling junta of Myanmar Tuesday extended the house arrest of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi for another year, a decision that has angered and frustrated many in the international community. Suu Kyi's...