The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Poland on Monday ruled against a musician who tore up a copy of the Bible on stage in 2007. The court held that even...
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The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari on a case dealing with a proposed ballot initiative to amend the Oklahoma constitution by defining a fertilized egg as a person. The...
The Bahrain government banned all protests on Tuesday, threatening legal action against any groups that initiate demonstrations. The Interior Ministry announced this emergency rule to stop the persistent anti-government protests . This represents the broadest...
A Rwandan court on Tuesday convicted opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza of treason and genocide denial, sentencing her to eight years in prison. Ingabire was acquitted on charges of terrorism and promoting...
The US Supreme Court granted four new cases Monday. In Bullock v. Bank Champaign, N.A. the court will look at what degree of misconduct by a trustee will disqualify a...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Monday. In Clapper v. Amnesty International the court heard arguments to determine whether advocacy organizations which represent or work with...
An alleged Nazi war criminal has filed a writ to sue the Australian government for wrongful imprisonment after being jailed on a charge of killing an 18-year-old Jewish man in Hungary in 1944. Charles Zentai , a...
A former prisoner began proceedings against the British government last week after Prime Minister David Cameron announced that he would not comply with a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) requiring the government to...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday expressed disappointment with an apparent lack of respect for a ceasefire request in Syria, saying that the fighting must stop for the crisis to end. While the...
The FBI released its annual report on violent and property crime, Crime in the United States 2011 , on Monday, which found that the number of violent crimes reported to law enforcement decreased for the fifth consecutive...
