According to an Amnesty International report (AI) on Friday, "the ongoing political persecution of Anwar Ibrahim is symbolic of Malaysia's crackdown on human rights." According to Josef Benedict, AI's Deputy Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Anwar...

New Gambian President Adama Barrow has confirmed through a top EU official that The Gambia will remain in the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Neven Mimica , the EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development,...

Romanian Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , resigned on Thursday in the wake of protests calling for the government to resign. During his press...

Peruvian Judge Richard Concepcion on Thursday ordered the arrest of former president Alejandro Toledo for his alleged involvement with a bribery scandal involving the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht SA . Concepcion ordered Toledo to spend...

Nepal on Thursday extended the mandates of two separate commissions tasked with investigating crimes from the country's civil war . This extension came hours before the mandates were set to expire without any cases actually...

The Constitutional Court of Romania declined on Thursday to rule on a controversial decree decriminalizing certain corruption offenses. The decree was introduced by the government last week and then referred to the court for review,...

The High Court of Kenya ruled Thursday that a government order to close the world's largest refugee camp is unconstitutional. Dadaab, a camp to more than 200,000 people, would have been forced to shut down and send its...

African nations should not abandon the International Criminal Court (ICC) , UN Special Adviser Adama Dieng urged in an editorial Monday. Dieng, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, wrote in...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday issued an order to enjoin the proposed merger of health insurance giant Anthem and Cigna . The US Department of Justice...

The UK House of Commons voted 494-122 Wednesday to approve HC Bill 132 , which would empower Prime Minister Theresa May to formally begin the Brexit process. The House of Commons completed its first reading...