The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) , led by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe , on Sunday demanded a recount of the March 29th presidential election , amid opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) accusations that the move is illegal. The MDC defeated ZANU-PF in the parliamentary vote, but the Electoral [...]
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) spokesman Farhatullah Babar dismissed suggestions Saturday that the party was wavering on its commitment to restore judges fired by President Pervez Musharraf . Influential Pakistan newspaper The News reported Saturday that "the issue of restoration of the deposed judges is already causing cracks and friction not only in the grand political [...]
Former Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya said Saturday that she has hired a lawyer and is now fighting her controversial May 2007 removal from the Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament . Joya was expelled after she compared the parliament to a stable in a private television interview. In a petition filed [...]
The Harare High Court on Saturday postponed a hearing on a lawsuit seeking to compel the country's Electoral Commission to release the results of last Saturday's elections after lawyers for Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were barred from entering the court. Armed police blocked the entrance to the court and forced journalists [...]
The Constitutional Court of Chile on Friday blocked a government-sponsored program that distributed emergency contraceptives to women as young as 14 free of charge. The program , approved by the Supreme Court in February, was introduced by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet , who called it essential to creating equality among Chilean women. It was immediately [...]
Eva Herzer : "The United Nations Charter, Covenants and Declarations set forth the internationally agreed upon standards of human ethics and decency necessary to protect the integrity and dignity of individuals and peoples. The current massive uprising of the Tibetan people is a textbook example of what happens when the politically powerful defy these standards. [...]
The Nigerian Federal High Court on Friday formally charged rebel Henry Okah with treason based on an alleged coup plot. Okah, a member of the militant Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) , was arrested and charged in Angola in September after attempting to buy weapons and explosives. Friday's closed court hearing was [...]
A military tribunal in Suriname ruled Friday that all suspects involved in a 1982 massacre in Paramaribo must stand trial, including former military dictator Desi Bouterse . Led by Bouterse, the armed forces seized power in 1982 and then executed 15 prominent citizens accused of plotting against the government. The Suriname military tribunal rejected an [...]
The US military has charged a civilian contractor working with the military in Iraq with aggravated assault, marking the first time the military has charged a civilian since a 2006 amendment to Article II of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) granting the military jurisdiction over civilians accompanying US troops in a combat zone. [...]
The US Department of Justice on Friday sued Fox Broadcasting Company to collect unpaid fines issued for the broadcast of the controversial 2003 reality show "Married by America." Amending an earlier order, the Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau issued a Forfeiture Order in late February ordering the the licensees of the 13 stations against whom [...]
