The European Court of First Instance on Thursday struck down a decision by the Council of the European Union freezing the assets of the prominent Iranian opposition group Peoples Mojahedin Organization...
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The US Department of Defense announced Wednesday that it has filed new war crimes charges against two Kuwaiti men held at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay . Fouad Rabia, a US-educated aeronautical engineer...
A South African judge Wednesday gave prosecutors leave to appeal a ruling dismissing corruption charges against Jacob Zuma , head of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) . Zuma is expected to...
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serb special police officer Vaso Todorovic to six years in prison for committing crimes against humanity in the Srebrenica massacre [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...
A Canadian government inquiry has found that officials of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) "indirectly contributed" to the torture of three citizens while in Syria [JURIST news...
A judicial panel of the UK House of Lords Wednesday ruled that the British government acted within its power in denying a group of Indian Ocean islanders known as Chagossians the right to...
New York Supreme Court Judge Jacquelyn Silbermann Wednesday rejected a petition brought by two members of New York City Council trying to prevent a council vote on a resolution to extend New York mayoral and city...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that a physician who was accused of writing illegal prescriptions could pursue claims of false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution against the federal...
The death sentence of Afghan journalism student Sayad Parwaz Kambaksh was reduced Tuesday to 20 years' imprisonment by an Afghan appeals court. Kambaksh was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender...
US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Wednesday issued a final rule setting out the details of his department's air passenger screening program . Under the Secure Flight Final Rule , responsibility for vetting the...
