Former Caracas prosecutor Franklin Nieves released a video Friday confessing to being pressured into presenting false evidence to condemn opposition leader Leopoldo López. The prosecutor claims that he fled Venezuela with his family due to the pressure to continue to defend false evidence by the government of Nicolas Maduro to condemn the opposition leader. Nieves [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Hawaii said Friday that a Native Hawaiian election scheduled for November 1 may take place. The election, known as the Na’i Aupuni election, will allow Native Hawaiians that are registered to vote to elect delegates for a convention know as the ‘aha, to establish [...]

Lawyers for the families of three Bosnian Muslims killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Friday filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) seeking to bring charges against three Dutch former-UN commanders. The complaint, filed by lawyers Liesbeth Zegveld and Tomasz Kodrzycki, comes after Dutch prosecutors declined to bring charges in [...]

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Shiite Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was found guilty of sedition and other charges following his involvement in the 2011 Arab Spring Movement. Nimr’s brother made the announcement via Twitter on Sunday, telling Reuters that his family and lawyers were not given notice of [...]

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was detained last year after returning from treating Ebola patients in Africa, has filed a lawsuit against New Jersey government officials for holding her against her will and violating her constitutional rights. The lawsuit, which was filed against Governor Chris Christie , then-Commissioner of Health Mary O’Dowd and other health [...]

US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara on Thursday dropped a high-profile insider trading case, stating that he is moving to dismiss the charges against seven defendants. The defendants are former SAC Capital Advisors LP (now Point72 Asset Management) portfolio manager Michael Steinberg and six analysts. Bharara decided to move to [...]

Argentina on Sunday opened its first round of voting for the country’s new presidential election. The new president will replace current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who is now serving her second term and thus constitutionally ineligible for reelection. In order to win, a candidate will need to either get 45% of the vote or [...]

A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Corrections on Thursday said that a death row inmate has requested death by electrocution for the first time in nearly twenty years. The inmate, Wayne Doty, was sentenced to death in 2011 after killing a fellow inmate. While the electric chair has not been used for executions in [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Friday affirmed by a vote of 2-1 the dismissal of a Bivens action filed by a US citizen alleging that he was tortured and threatened by US Federal Bureau of Investigation couter-terrorism agents in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya and this conduct violated his constitutional rights. [...]

US President Barack Obama on Thursday vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 (NDAA) because military defense spending would exceed caps set under the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the NDAA would restrict the transfer of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay . The proposed $612 billion NDAA includes a $38 billion increase in [...]