UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak accused Nigeria's national police of widespread human rights violations Monday, telling the UN Human Rights Council that Nigerian police routinely tortured suspects during investigations. Nowak also deplored Nigeria's...
Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives, v. Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten, US District Court for the District of Columbia, March 10, 2008 . Read the full text...
Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy filed an emergency motion Monday seeking to block a district court ruling finding her in contempt of court for refusing to disclose government sources who provided information about...
A Dutch appeals court Monday overturned the conviction of Dutch businessman Guus Kouwenhoven for violating a UN embargo against the government of former Liberian President Charles Taylor . In 2006, a lower court...
A German lawmaker has launched a challenge to the new EU reform treaty , properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon , asking that Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rule on whether it...
Registry officials at the International Criminal Court (ICC) met Monday with a delegation of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to discuss procedural matters regarding the prosecution of several LRA leaders. The...
The US House Judiciary Committee filed a lawsuit Monday to enforce subpoenas seeking information from former White House legal counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten regarding the US...
A Mauritanian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay has threatened to sue US officials, alleging that he has been tortured in US custody. Lawyers for Mohamed Ould Sillahi told Reuters Monday that Sillahi was...
Chinese prosecutors increased the number of corruption convictions against government officials by 30 percent in the past five years, according to a Monday report by Chinese Procurator-General Jia Chunwang at the First Session of the...
A court in the Philippines acquitted Imelda Marcos and two co-defendants of 32 counts of illegal fund transfers Monday, ending a 17-year criminal trial in which prosecutors accused the widow of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos of...