UN rights investigators must remain independent: Chile president
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet urged members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to adopt measures to ensure the independence of UNHRC investigators . Speaking during a special UNHRC...
Egypt court rejects plea for opposition leader release on health grounds
A criminal court in Cairo Thursday refused a plea by public prosecutor Abdel Maguid for the release of jailed Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour . Maguid had asked the court to consider Nour's deteriorating health,...
Egypt police release extremists, arrest more Muslim Brotherhood members
More than one hundred Muslim extremists belonging to the group al-Jihad have been released from Egyptian prisons over the last two weeks, according to Egyptian police on Monday. The prisoners, many of whom had been held for...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held elections to its 47-member Geneva-based panel on Thursday, with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia defeating Belarus for the two available Eastern European...
Egypt appeals court allows Muslim Brotherhood military trial to proceed
Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court ruled Monday that a military trial of forty top members of the Muslim Brotherhood can go forward. The trial is scheduled to resume on June 3. The holding reverses last week's...
Egypt parliament strips two Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers of immunity
The Egyptian Parliament Wednesday deprived two Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers of their official immunity. Under Egyptian law, legislators enjoy immunity from prosecution unless the parliament votes to remove it. Sabri Amer and Ragab Abu...
Egypt court rejects presidential order for military trial of Muslim Brotherhood members
The Administrative Court in Egypt ruled Tuesday that a presidential order that forty top members of the Muslim Brotherhood be tried before a military court was invalid, holding that the members must...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has neglected to censure countries committing gross violations of human rights, including Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China, according to a report released Monday by rights watchdog group UN Watch...
An Italian judge Friday rejected government arguments that Italian prosecutors had overstepped their authority in bringing charges against 26 US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents and two former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition...
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom Wednesday released its annual report on worldwide religious freedom , finding for the first time since the ouster of Saddam Hussein that freedom of religious worship in Iraq...
