1LT. Ehren K. Watada v. Lt. Col. John Head, Military Judge, Army Trial Judiciary, Fourth Judicial District, et al., US District Court for the Western District of Washington, November 8, 2007 [issuing a preliminary injunction against holding a second court-martial...

Stockwell One: Investigation into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell underground station on 22 July 2005, UK Independent Police Complaints Commission, November 8, 2007 [criticizing the Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Sir Ian Blair for allegedly attempting to...

Serb nationalist leader and war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj used his opening statement at his trial Thursday to call the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) "illegal and illegitimate," and accused...

Bangladesh police on Wednesday arrested an associate of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on suspicion of instigating street demonstrations in violation of the ban on assembly, one of the freedoms restricted in January when the military...

Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti filed suit in state court Wednesday against the state's six largest insurance companies, including Allstate and State Farm, alleging the companies conspired to fix payouts for damages related to Hurricane Katrina...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday denounced the state of emergency imposed Wednesday in the neighboring Georgian Republic as "a gross violation of human rights and democratic freedom." Russia urged the United Nations, the Council...

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 235-184 in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act , legislation that would extend protections against workplace discrimination to gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. The bill covers hiring and...

The government of Nigeria filed a lawsuit in a Nigerian federal court Wednesday against local tobacco producer International Tobacco Company, Ltd. and international tobacco producers British American Tobacco (BAT) and Philip Morris International [corporate...

Increasing institutionalization of racist political ideologies and violent expressions of racism seriously threaten democracy and human rights, a United Nations expert told the General Assembly Wednesday. In his report to the General Assembly's Third Committee ,...

The Florida Supreme Court issued a 5-2 order Wednesday denying a stay of execution for death row inmate Mark Dean Schwab . The court ruled last week that the state could proceed with...