The early release of Tommy Suharto from prison Monday by court order under the Indonesian government's holiday remission program has prompted criticism that the Indonesian justice system continues to be easily manipulated by those with money and...
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US Marine Lance Cpl. Tyler A. Jackson will plead guilty in connection with the April 26 death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania , Jackson's lawyer said Monday. Jackson faces court-martial...
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sitting in London Monday upheld the sex abuse convictions of six men for committing rapes and sexual assaults against women and underage girls on the British...
China's National People's Congress voted Tuesday to amend the Organic Law on the People's Courts so that only the Supreme People's Court has the authority to approve the death penalty . The...
Advocacy groups filed a second lawsuit Monday against the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania in an attempt to block the community's anti-immigration laws that will make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to reside or work in the...
A federal jury Monday returned a $48 million verdict against Amerigroup and its Illinois affiliate for discriminating against pregnant women by intentionally not reaching out to them while marketing its insurance services in Illinois. The lawsuit was...
Failure to Protect: A Call to the UN Security Council to Act in North Korea, US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, October 30, 2006 [claiming that the North Korean government is "actively committing crimes against humanity" by the...
Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, October 30, 2006 . Read the full text...
A US Navy spokesman said Monday that an Article 32 hearing scheduled for Tuesday in the case of Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, a staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps accused of leaking detainee names...
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud voiced objections to a draft document governing the special tribunal to be tasked with trying suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri ...
