Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced Friday that he was suspending the country's constitution , and revoking the appointment of all judicial officers, after the Fiji Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled his appointment of military officer Commodore...
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CIA director Leon Panetta on Thursday outlined new techniques to be employed by the agency in their detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists. The new policies include discontinuing the use of contractors to conduct interrogations...
The US has been slow to conduct habeas corpus hearings for Guantanamo Bay detainees despite a June 2008 US Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush mandating prompt hearings, Amnesty International (AI) said...
The Bolivian National Congress approved Thursday the general framework of the electoral law that the new Bolivian constitution mandated within 60 days of its adoption. Earlier...
A jury of US Marines acquitted Sgt. Ryan Weemer Thursday of one count of murder and one count of dereliction of duty for his involvement in the shooting death of a detained Iraqi insurgent during a...
Officials in North Korea announced Thursday that the country would revise its constitution . The announcement came during a meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) attended by the country's leader, Kim Jong-Il. According...
The French National Assembly on Thursday defeated a controversial internet piracy bill that would have cut off internet access for those who repeatedly illegally download copyrighted material. Under the bill, which won...
The Court of Appeal of Fiji ruled Thursday that the country's appointment of a military government following a 2006 coup was unconstitutional and must be replaced immediately by an interim prime minister until democratic elections can be...
The UK Ministry of Justice (MOJ) on Wednesday began the second stage of a consultation on giving certain prisoners the right to vote based on the length of their prison terms, seeking public...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday issued rulings in four cases ordering Russia to pay a total of 282,000 to compensate six families who claimed government agents abducted their Chechen relatives between...
