UN rights investigators with the United Nations Human Rights Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNHRO) have documented serious human rights violations committed in the DRC following post-electoral violence in the capital Kinshasa in March 2007, including...
Retired Bosnian Serb general Novack Djukic was indicted Friday by the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina for allegedly ordering a 1995 attack on the town of Tuzla in...
Italian prosecutor Franco Ionta said Friday that he would "almost certainly" appeal a Rome court's October 2007 dismissal of a criminal case against US Army Spc. Mario Lozano for the murder of Italian intelligence agent...
Jose Padilla et al. v. John Yoo, United States District Court, Northern District of California, January 4, 2008 [lawsuit against law professor and former DOJ official John Yoo seeking to hold him accountable for suffering allegedly caused by his "Torture...
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in six cases , including Kennedy v. Louisiana (07-343) , in which the Supreme Court will consider whether a death sentence constitutes...
Convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla Friday filed suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against University of California Berkeley law professor John Yoo , the...
About 60 members of the 100-member Ecuadorian Congress met at a hotel in Quito Thursday despite being suspended by the special Constitutional Assembly in late November. Head of Congress Jorge Cevallos had said [press release,...
Lawyers for an Oklahoma man filed a taxpayer lawsuit Thursday seeking to overturn a state immigration law as an alleged violation of the state constitution. The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007 [HB 1804 text,...
The Communist Party of China Thursday issued a list of "10 taboos" for public officials as part of the government's attempt to fight corruption ahead of a reshuffling of provincial leadership posts later this month....
Opposition activists in Myanmar called for the release of pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi Friday as the nation observed its independence day. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NDL)...