An Egyptian court on Tuesday stated that on April 28 it will rule on the mass trial of 683 alleged supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi charged with murder, incitement of...

In recognition of the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims , UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged global leaders Monday to...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and their interaction with bankruptcy. In Clark v. Rameker the court will decide whether an inherited individual retirement account...

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decision regarding Delaware's state-funded arbitration for business disputes. The lower court held that...

Richard Falk , the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, on Friday called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to assess the legal status of Israel's prolonged occupation of Palestine. Falk...

An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 529 supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi to death on charges of killing and attacking policemen in one of the largest mass trials to be held in the...

Amnesty International (AI) on Monday said that Chinese authorities must put an end to the persecution of those remembering victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown as its twenty-fifth anniversary nears. AI...

A Cairo court on Sunday ordered the release on bail of blogger and activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, who was imprisoned by Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in October 2011 for violating Egypt's controversial protest law and...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in a dispute concerning the proper procedures a criminal defendant must adhere to in a federal habeas corpus petition. On appeal from the US Court of...

The European Union (EU) on Friday imposed new sanctions against 11 senior Russian politicians, including Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. The EU imposed the sanctions on the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin [official...