Khmer Rouge former head of state, Khieu Samphan, on Wednesday challenged the 2014 life sentence imposed by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) for crimes against humanity. Samphan stated that he was simply...

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Thursday strongly condemned the violence that took place Wednesday night between Shilluk and Dinka youths at one of its Protection of Civilians sites in South...

India's high court on Thursday expressed concern over law and order following widespread protests over the arrest of a student leader for sedition. Kanhaiya Kumar, the head of the student union at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, was arrested ...

A top migration official at EU has warned Austria on Thursday not to go ahead with the implementation of its plans to cap the asylum-seeker numbers, stating that any such move would be unlawful. Dimitris Avramopoulos wrote a...

The UK Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a law on "joint enterprise" has been misinterpreted for 30 years, opening the door for many convicted murderers to appeal their convictions. Under the former interpretation of the law,...

Amnesty International (AI) reported Wednesday that Egyptian officials have ordered for the closure of a torture rehabilitation center that had been a refuge to victims of human rights violations. Early on Wednesday, Egyptian police officers...

US military judge James Pohl refused on Wednesday to allow accused 9/11 conspirator Walid bin Attash to fire his attorneys and refusedto let his defender to quit the case. In response Attash has stated he will boycott...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Wednesday filed suit on behalf of Muslim American Raja'ee Fatihah, who was denied service at an Oklahoma gun range last year. CAIR, along with the American Civil Liberties...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the state of Louisiana cannot enforce an abortion law while the state is appealing a pretrial order against it. US District Judge John deGravelles ruled in January that part of...

US Magistrate Sheri Pym of the US District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday ordered Apple to assist the US government in unlocking the iPhone of one of the shooters in the...