The Zimbabwe High Court Wednesday ruled against an appeal filed by the legal team defending Simon Mann seeking to prevent Mann's extradition for trial in Equatorial Guinea. Judge Rita Makarau held that the government had...
Seven Islamic militants involved in multiple bombing attacks on a town in northwestern Bangladesh were sentenced to life in prison by a Bangladeshi court Thursday. The attacks were part of a larger bombing plot allegedly...
The US Department of Justice asked US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper Wednesday to lift a preliminary injunction restricting the US Navy's use of sonar along the coast of Southern California. President Bush granted an exemption earlier this...
A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday ruled that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) "unreasonably delayed" the accounting of billions of dollars of American Indian money...
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by residents of New Orleans against the US Army Corps of Engineers , ruling that the Flood Control Act of 1928 grants immunity to...
Kosovo (Serbia): The challenge to fix a failed UN justice mission, Amnesty International, January 30, 2008 . Read the full text of the report ....
The extortion trial of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed resumed Wednesday in Dhaka, after the Bangladesh Supreme Court last week rejected Hasina's appeal of the proceedings . Hasina had argued that...
Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Wednesday that he would begin a hunger strike to protest denial of medical treatment to Vasily Aleksanian , an imprisoned former executive and lawyer...
Iran's chief judge issued a ban Wednesday against all public executions not specially permitted by the head of the judiciary. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi also banned the publication of pictures and videos of executions and...
The International Judges and Prosecutors Programme of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has failed to meet international standards to ensure fair trials, according to a report released Wednesday by...