The Bolivian Constitutional Assembly approved the text of a new draft constitution for the country Saturday, according to Constitutional Assembly President Silvia Lazarte. Bolivian President Evo Morales has sought a...
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Bolivia constitutional assembly approves draft constitution
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Iraq parliament undertakes raucous first reading of de-Baathification reform bill
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Judge stays challenge to new illegal immigrant employment rules pending revision
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Rumsfeld war crimes lawsuit rejection [France MJ]
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Russia opposition figure Kasparov arrested at anti-Putin rally
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Pakistan lawyers continue strike action to protest emergency
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UN torture committee concerned over Uzbek law enforcement practices
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Russia deputy finance minister charged with fraud, embezzlement
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French prosecutor rejects war crimes lawsuit against Rumsfeld
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Pakistan emergency ruling [Pakistan SC]
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The Iraqi parliament Sunday conducted a preliminary reading of a proposed law that would allow former Baath Party members not convicted of any crimes to return to their previously held government...
US District Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California Friday stayed until March 24 a challenge to the implementation of new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations intended to...
Letter from French prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin to FIDH lawyer Patrick Boudoin, November 16, 2007 . Read...
Former chess champion and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov was arrested Saturday at a demonstration in Moscow against President Vladimir Putin , two weeks before parliamentary elections. AP...
Lawyers across Pakistan's populous Sindh province went on strike Friday to protest President Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. Lawyers observed a strike call from the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) at the Sindh High Court in Karachi,...
The UN Committee against Torture said Friday it was concerned about ill-treatment and torture of detainees by Uzbekistan law enforcement officials. The committee issued a report concluding a three-week meeting in Geneva where it reviewed the...
Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak was charged Friday with fraud and attempting to embezzle $43.3 million in state funds, according to his lawyer. After an initial investigation the Russian Prosecutor General's Office ...
French prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin has dismissed a war crimes claim against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld alleging that Rumsfeld authorized US personnel to torture prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, according to a lawyer for...
Constitution Petition Nos. 87 and 88 of 2007, Supreme Court of Pakistan, November 23, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment. Reported in...
