French President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday told the European Parliament that the European Union (EU) should quickly resolve conflicts over the proposed EU reform treaty , formally...
The Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced Thursday that it will investigate Australian mining company Oceana Gold for possible human rights violations at the site of a planned gold and copper mine in Didipio,...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Thursday acquitted Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski of charges related to the deaths of seven ethnic Albanian civilians, but sentenced...
Lawyers for Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr released documents Wednesday indicating that the Canadian government knew he had been mistreated at the detention center before agents questioned him in 2004. The documents...
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday said the recent acquittal of Bosnian Muslim war crimes suspect Naser Oric by the International Criminal Tribunal for...
Officials for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that they will revise the Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations to no longer induce waivers of the attorney-client privilege and to limit what...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday ordered a federal court to hold an evidentiary hearing to consider whether a man sentenced to death for murder might be mentally retarded. After Michael Wayne...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Wednesday affirmed the conviction of a Pakistani man tried for conspiring to bomb a New York City subway station. On appeal, Shahawar Matin Siraj (Matin) argued...
German border police arrested Rwandan war crimes suspect Callixte Mbarushiman on Wednesday as he was preparing to travel to Russia. Mbarushimana, a Hutu, was an employee of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Rwanda during the the...
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) Monday filed bar complaints against two former US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, alleging that Michael J. Elston and Esther Slater McDonald improperly considered...