US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Mary Schapiro on Thursday named Robert Khuzami as the new director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. Khuzmani replaces former director of enforcement Linda Thomsen,...
The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said Friday that the US has agreed to return UK resident and Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed to the country as...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling that dismissed a suit resulting from Hurricane Katrina brought on behalf of the US against eight...
Both the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have committed human rights violations by attacking civilians in the Vanni region, according to a...
Under the leadership of successive Labour Party governments the UK Parliament has systematically infringed on freedoms and rights of individual British citizens over the past decade, according to a report released Thursday by the Convention...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maine on Wednesday dismissed charges of making false statements against former Republican National Committee regional director James Tobin [SourceWatch...
The Moscow Military District Court on Friday acquitted three men suspected of being involved in the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The three men, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, were released after a...
Former Yugoslav National Army officer Miroslav Radic on Wednesday sued Serbia for the four years and six months he was detained during his trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Radic...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ordered the UK to pay £2,500 in damages to Islamic cleric Abu Qataba after determining that he was imprisoned by...
Judge Abdul-Amir al-Rubaie of the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI) on Thursday postponed the trial of Muntadar al-Zaidi , the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoes at former US president...