American and European officials meeting in Munich Sunday at the annual Conference on Security Policy criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for backsliding on his protection of human rights. US Senator John McCain went...
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Russia's most senior judge has predicted that the Kremlin's growing power will eventually result in a dictatorship if it remains unchecked by the country's judiciary. Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery...
Pinochet fingerprints, mug shot taken by Chile police as rights case proceeds
Chilean police have taken fingerprints and a mug shot of former dictator Augusto Pinochet as part of his indictment over Operation Colombo , in which at least 119 dissidents were allegedly murdered during...
Chile Supreme Court upholds Pinochet fitness to stand trial for rights abuses
The Supreme Court of Chile on Monday denied the appeal of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges, ruling 3-2 in support of a lower appeals court decision...
Citizens of Congo went to the polls Sunday for the first time in more than 30 years to vote on a draft constitution that could secure lasting peace in the country. Many of the 24 million...
JURIST Guest Columnist Richard Edwards, Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, says that the new Terrorism Bill presented to Parliament by the Blair government in the wake of the London bombings...
President Bush urged Sunni Arabs on Tuesday to embrace the proposed Iraqi constitution in an effort to bring peace to a country on the verge of civil war. When asked about a Sunni negotiator's warning that...
Sunday's announcement that the Iraqi Special Tribunal has charged former dictator Saddam Hussein in connection with the 1982 killing of some 150 Shiites in the village of Dujail and statements...
Chilean appeals court says Pinochet able to stand trial for killings
A three-judge panel of the Santiago Appeals Court ruled Friday that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is physically and mentally fit to stand trial for the alleged murders of brothers Hector and Guido Barria Bassay by agents...
International brief ~ Argentine high court holds amnesty laws unconstitutional
Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Argentine Supreme Court has struck down the nation's two amnesty laws preventing former military and government officials from being investigated and prosecuted for alleged crimes and human rights abuses during...