Commonwealth foreign ministers meeting in Uganda announced Thursday that they had agreed to suspend Pakistan from the group of 53 nations "pending the restoration of democracy and the rule of law in that country." A statement ...
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The Supreme Court of Chile on Wednesday upheld an appeals court decision to drop embezzlement charges brought against the widow and five sons of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet . The...
The UN General Assembly Third Committee Wednesday approved a draft resolution imploring the government of Belarus to uphold its "obligation to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil...
Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a former associate professor of business at Howard University in Washington DC who was one of three men indicted in 2004 by a US federal grand jury on charges of engaging in a 15-year conspiracy...
The bankruptcy administrator for the embattled Russian oil company Yukos announced Thursday that the company no longer legally exists. The Moscow Arbitration Court completed Yukos' liquidation this month and removed it as a legal...
The reconstituted Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday dismissed the final outstanding legal challenge to General Pervez Musharraf's October legislative re-election to the post of president of Pakistan. Rival candidate Zahoor Mehdi had argued that the Pakistan election...
Mann v. Georgia Department of Corrections, Supreme Court of Georgia, November 21, 2007 . Read the full text...
Constitution (Amendment) Order, 2007, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, November 21, 2007 [invoking his power to unilaterally amend the country's constitution under Article 2(1) of the Provisional Constitution Order and making the November 3 declaration of emergency and accompanying orders immune...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf promulgated an ordinance Wednesday invoking his power to unilaterally amend the country's constitution under Article 2(1) of the current Provisional Constitution Order and making the November 3 declaration of emergency and accompanying...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour called on Pakistan to restore judicial independence in comments to AFP Wednesday, saying that an independent judiciary is just as important as free elections to a democracy. Pakistani President...
