Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a former associate professor of business at Howard University in Washington DC who was one of three men indicted in 2004 by a US federal grand jury on charges of engaging in a 15-year conspiracy...

The bankruptcy administrator for the embattled Russian oil company Yukos announced Thursday that the company no longer legally exists. The Moscow Arbitration Court completed Yukos' liquidation this month and removed it as a legal...

The reconstituted Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday dismissed the final outstanding legal challenge to General Pervez Musharraf's October legislative re-election to the post of president of Pakistan. Rival candidate Zahoor Mehdi had argued that the Pakistan election...

Mann v. Georgia Department of Corrections, Supreme Court of Georgia, November 21, 2007 . Read the full text...

Constitution (Amendment) Order, 2007, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, November 21, 2007 [invoking his power to unilaterally amend the country's constitution under Article 2(1) of the Provisional Constitution Order and making the November 3 declaration of emergency and accompanying orders immune...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf promulgated an ordinance Wednesday invoking his power to unilaterally amend the country's constitution under Article 2(1) of the current Provisional Constitution Order and making the November 3 declaration of emergency and accompanying...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour called on Pakistan to restore judicial independence in comments to AFP Wednesday, saying that an independent judiciary is just as important as free elections to a democracy. Pakistani President...

Prosecutors argued before a hearing of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Wednesday that former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav should be denied bail to prevent violence that...

The Supreme Court of Georgia Wednesday unanimously overturned a state law that prohibited registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools, playgrounds and other areas where children gather. Civil rights groups...

The UN General Assembly Third Committee Tuesday approved a draft resolution imploring Iran to "respect fully its human rights obligations." The draft expressed concern about ongoing human rights violations in Iran...