A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied a government motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and...
Members of the Chinese delegation to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) on Monday said that the Chinese government had provided training and enacted judicial reforms to help implement its prohibitions...
Members of the UK parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) are pushing for legislation to limit the ability of the media to report on matters affecting national security, according to an Independent report Monday. Under the...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in three cases. In Chambers v. United States , the Court will consider whether failure to report to...
The Muslim Defender Team (TPM), the group of lawyers representing the three men executed Saturday for the 2002 Bali bombings , said Monday that it will file charges against Indonesia's attorney general, alleging that the execution...
The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in the capital cases of Kelly v. California (07-11073) and Zamudio v. California (07-11425) . Petitioners in...
A Bangladeshi court on Monday ordered three members of the cabinet of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia to jail on corruption charges. Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad, and Saifur Rahman, who served as industry, social welfare...
German officials on Sunday arrested an aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame in connection with the 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarima that touched off the infamous Rwanda genocide . Rose Kabuye...
Advisers to US President-elect Barack Obama have begun working on a plan to hold criminal trials in US courts for a large number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, according to a Monday report by...
The Judges Association of Serbia (JAS) has criticized a set of proposed judicial reforms slated for debate in the country's parliament beginning Tuesday. The Serbian Ministry of Justice and the Organization for Security and...