The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the 1996 Communications Decency Act protects online users, including bloggers, who republish defamatory statements written by others from liability. Citing First Amendment concerns, the...
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Israel's use of force during its 33-day standoff with Hezbollah in Lebanon was "excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate" in "flagrant violation" of international law, according to a report issued Tuesday by the UN Human Rights Council [official...
A draft UN General Assembly resolution condemning human rights violations in Uzbekistan has been blocked in the General Assembly's Third Committee by a group of mainly developing nations that claim...
Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington, one of several US Marines facing court-martial in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania , told a military court Monday that agents from the...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the National Security Agency (NSA) can withhold documents and information relating to its Terrorist Surveillance Program [JURIST news archive; US DOJ fact sheet,...
A US judge sentenced Bosnian immigrant Marko Boskic to 63 months in prison Monday for failing to reveal his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre while trying to enter the US as a refugee....
Former US Attorney General Janet Reno joined seven other former US Justice Department officials Monday in opposing an interpretation of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) that would deny suspected terrorists...
French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has recommended that Rwandan President Paul Kagame stand trial for the 1994 killing of former president Juvenal Habyarimana , which sparked the country's genocide [HRW backgrounder; BBC...
Losing leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador held a ceremony Monday to establish himself as the "moral" president of Mexico in his latest attempt to develop a parallel government for...
Nepal's High Level Probe Commission submitted its final report Monday to the Nepalese government, concluding that King Gyanendra and some 200 members of his administration were responsible for the violent response to the...
