Attacks carried out by the Sudanese Army in four Darfur villages earlier this year constituted human rights violations, according to a report released Thursday by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) ....
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Bangladeshi authorities Thursday released a cartoonist detained for allegedly insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad after the police official pressing charges against him repeatedly failed to appear in court. Arifur Rahman was arrested in September after...
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday ruled that lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr could present evidence before the Court that the US is detaining Khadr in violation of international law....
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals Thursday issued a disbarment order for former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , banning him from practicing law in the District of Columbia. The DC...
The Russian Office of the Prosecutor-General has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky falsely claimed the country's secret service had targeted him for assassination,...
Milberg Weiss partner and co-founder Melvyn Weiss on Thursday agreed to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from a long-running US Attorney investigation into an alleged kickback scheme. Weiss was indicted last...
Representatives of Cuba and Venezuela Wednesday criticized the US during a UN Security Council meeting for failing to turn over anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles , saying that the US is bound by...
China has arrested 24 suspects in Tibet for their role in pro-Tibet protests that erupted throughout the region last week, the Tibet Daily reported Thursday. The suspects are charged with endangering national security, among...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Thursday rejected a request by former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea to be released from provisional detention . Nuon Chea, known...
A Chilean court convicted 24 former Chilean police officers of human rights violations on Wednesday for their role in the 1973 murders of 30 leftist prisoners. A woman who survived the incident, which took place during the regime of...
