Members of the Niger opposition party said Saturday that police had detained 30 former opposition lawmakers, allegedly at the behest of Niger President Mamadou Tandja . The 30 former member of parliament were arrested on charges of embezzlement...
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Pakistan's rule of law is stymied by long traditions of lawlessness and dictatorship, says the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute in a new report . The report, published Thursday, stems from observations and...
Media workers and reformists are urging Iran's new prosecutor general Abbas Jafari Dolat-Abadi to remove bans placed on newspapers and to free journalists who were imprisoned during the term of his predecessor, Saeed Mortazavi ,...
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) said Saturday that it is doing its job faithfully and impartially in an attempt to reassure the Afghan public amid allegations of voter fraud in the recent presidential election ....
Iran opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on Saturday called for continued protests over the recent controversial election in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected. Mousavi maintained his position that the election was fraudulent...
The Belgian Foreign Ministry announced press release] Friday that they have accepted a former Guantanamo Bay detainee into their country for resettlement. The Belgian government announced that the detainee, who has not been named,...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday ruled that Airbus received illegal subsidies from European governments, according to sources familiar with the unreleased decision. The preliminary ruling came in response to a complaint [materials; JURIST...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that former attorney general John Ashcroft is not entitled to absolute and qualified immunity, allowing an unlawful detention lawsuit by US...
Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 4, 2009 ....
Former US soldier Steven Green was sentenced Friday to five consecutive life terms in prison for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenage girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya....
