Search Results for: 2015-03-11

Islamic State (IS) militants have executed 49 people in the Libyan city of Sirte since seizing control in February 2015, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. According to the report, IS has taken...

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in Sheriff v. Gillie that the use of official state letterhead by private debt collectors retained by the state was not misleading. Ohio law allows the state's...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Husky International Electronics, Inc. v. Ritz that "actual fraud," as it relates to the discharge of debt under the bankruptcy code, may be committed by purposeful...

The US Supreme Court on Monday remanded a group of cases challenging the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the lower courts for further proceedings. The cases, consolidated as Zubik...

The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a measure that would permit detainees at Guantanamo Bay to plead guilty for their crimes through video conferencing, and would also allow the transfer of detainees to third-world countries to...

Bangladesh authorities on Wednesday executed Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes during the the 1971 war of independence. Nizami , a leader of the banned Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami , was convicted for war crimes including rape and...

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Thursday rejected Islamist leader Motiur Rahman Nizami's final appeal of his death sentence for war crimes committed in the country's war for independence against Pakistan in 1971. Nizami's conviction was made...

The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Tuesday sentenced four men to death for crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971. Five men were tried, but only four received death sentences...

Four men were arrested Monday in connection with the murder of Berta Cáceres, the founder of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations Honduras (COPINH) and a prominent defender of indigenous rights and the...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in McDonnell v. United States . The court is being asked to decide the meaning of "official action" under the fraud statutes used to convict former...