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An Italian court Monday found 15 police officers and medical staff members guilty of abusing anti-globalization protesters who were taken into custody during the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa . The protesters said they...

The Sudanese parliament Monday passed a long-anticipated electoral law that is expected to ease the country's transition to democracy. The law establishes that 60 percent of parliamentary seats will be chosen by majority voting, while the remaining 40 percent...

International leaders and human rights groups have criticized last Friday's presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe , calling the elections unfair and characterizing the government of newly sworn-in president Robert Mugabe as...

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation ruled Tuesday that the law under which the former head of media advocacy NGO Educated Media Foundation (EMF) was charged in 2007 was unconstitutionally vague , requiring...

The United States has gained ground as a country protecting press freedom, according to the sixth annual Worldwide Index of Freedom issued Tuesday by Reporters Without Borders (RWB) . RWB listed Eritrea, North Korea, and Turkmenistan...

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the International Committee of the Red Cross report on US interrogations of prisoners held at secret so-called CIA "black sites" should be released to the...

Mary E. Gibson, Pitt Law '08, files from Prishtina:Independence for Kosovo is nothing new — independence fervor did not begin in 1998 when conflicts escalated from Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević's ethnic cleansing of Albanians. Rather, it's been fermenting since before the Ottoman...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday told the lower house of Germany's parliament that she hopes a road map to an eventual European constitution can be achieved at an EU summit...

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and new French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed at the G8 summit in Germany Thursday that the controversial European constitution should be reconstituted into a "simplified treaty" whose ratification...

US District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California approved the release Tuesday of jailed video journalist and blogger Josh Wolf , who was imprisoned for 226 days, longer than any other...