US Attorney General Michael Mukasey recused himself from the investigation of former NASDAQ stock market chairman Bernard Madoff because his son is representing a top official in Madoff's investment firm, US...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) sentenced a former top official in Rwanda's Ministry of Defence and two other former Rwanda army officers to life imprisonment Thursday after convicting them of genocide and...
The Illinois Supreme Court Wednesday rejected a bid by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to have Governor Rod Blagojevich temporarily removed from office in the wake of corruption charges ...
A Muslim woman in the US state of Georgia was arrested Tuesday and ordered to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court after she refused to remove her headscarf , or hijab, upon entering a...
Russian civil rights activists Wednesday issued a statement warning that a proposed law that would change the definition of treason would allow the government to arrest any government critic . The proposed legislation extends the definition...
Two prominent Kosovar Albanians were found guilty of contempt Wednesday in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Former Kosovo minister for Culture, Youth and Sport Astrit Haraqija was sentenced...
The Turkish Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a lawyer accused of killing a judge and merged the case with the trial of a right-wing group accused of plotting a coup. Alparslan Arslan was sentenced...
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Tuesday called for greater judicial cooperation to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia. UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said that while pirates...
The legislature in the Papua province of Indonesia announced Tuesday that it will postpone a decision on whether to implant certain individuals infected with HIV/AIDS with microchips to monitor...
The Iraqi cabinet on Wednesday approved draft legislation that would require most non-US foreign troops to leave Iraq by mid-2009. The legislation must now be submitted to the Iraqi parliament for approval. A government spokesperson said that...