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British officials from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) who are investigating the killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was mistakenly shot by London police last year after the London bombings , plan to...

A Saturday protest by Nigerian Muslims in the northeastern city of Maiduguru over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad led to sectarian violence in which at least 15 people were killed, 15 Christian churches...

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office announced Friday that it has begun an investigation of newspaper editor Anna Smirnova whose newspaper Nash Region reprinted controversial caricatures of Muhammad this week as...

The Supreme Court of Nepal on Friday ordered the government to free 37 politicians who had been detained for opposing the direct rule of King Gyanendra , saying that the court...

Leading Friday's international brief, four high profile Egyptian judges who spoke out against fellow colleagues accused of rigging votes in last year's presidential elections have been stripped of judicial immunity and are scheduled to be questioned by Egyptian police...

As ongoing unrest stemming from the controversy over the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad continues, Pakistani police on Friday placed radical Islamic leader Hafiz Mohammad Saeed under house arrest to prevent him from giving his usual...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that the negotiated deal over the counting of disputed ballots which has made Rene Preval the president-elect of Haiti has correctly put...

French Justice Minister Pascal Clement has responded to a new Council of Europe (COE) report released on Wednesday criticizing France's human rights record by calling it "unfair". The 100 page report...

Iraq's Interior Ministry Thursday announced an investigation into claims that a police death squad has been operating in Iraq, either working for, or claiming to work for the ministry itself. The US military says it recently detained 22 men...

Leading Thursday's international brief, the civilian criminal trial of Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye and his 22 co-defendants has been postponed until after the upcoming national elections in Uganda. Ugandan Deputy Director for Public Prosecutions Simon...