US District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday blocking the implementation of new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations intended to make it...
US military forces in Iraq released 60 detainees Wednesday as part of Operation Lion's Paw , an ongoing effort to increase the number of Iraqi detainees released daily to at least 50 during the month of...
The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday approved a resolution labeling the World War I-era killings of over one million Armenians by Turkish soldiers as genocide. The resolution now...
Senate confirmation hearings for US Attorney General nominee Michael B. Mukasey will begin October 17 , Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Wednesday. Leahy has already outlined for Mukasey several issues...
Former US President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that under the Bush administration the United States "for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned the basic principles of human rights". He told CNN's Wolf...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday conducted an evidentiary hearing in the decade-old Indian Trust case . The class-action suit involves the alleged mismanagement by the...
France Wednesday formally agreed to abolish the death penalty in all circumstances when it ratified a provision of the European Convention on Human Rights . Since its 2003 inception, Protocol 13 ,...
The US Department of Justice filed notice Tuesday that it will appeal last month's district court decision that found provisions of the USA Patriot Act to be unconstitutional . The Federal...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Medellin v. Texas , 06-984, where the court considered whether the Bush administration has the authority to direct...
Many female human rights activists in Zimbabwe have been repeatedly arrested, unlawfully detained, and subjected to beatings at the hands of police, according to the preliminary results of surveys conducted by the advocacy group Women of...