Lawyers for former Liberian president Charles Taylor requested Tuesday that the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) reopen Taylor's war crimes case in light of new evidence, including a recent report [text,...
The Swedish Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will not hear an appeal of the copyright convictions of Fredrik Neji, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstroem for their involvement in running The Pirate Bay , a...
Four British men pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting an al Qaeda inspired attack against the London Stock Exchange (LSE) . In December 2010, nine men who met through radical Islamist groups were charged and taken into custody [JURIST...
Google issued a letter Tuesday in response to concerns raised by members of Congress regarding consumer privacy rights as impacted by the search giant's new privacy policy . In its response Google replied...
Human Rights Watch on Monday urged the Indian government to prosecute Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers that it has long implicated in torture and extrajudicial killings near the Bangladesh border. HRW's plea comes...
A French genocide denial ban passed last week stalled on Tuesday after two groups of French politicians challenged the law's constitutionality. The opposition groups, which include members in both the Senate and the National...
Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon took the stand in his second trial before the Spanish Supreme Court on Tuesday and defended his investigation into war crimes allegedly committed under...
Haiti's Investigative Magistrate Carves Jean ruled Monday that former president Jean-Claude Duvalier will not stand trial for crimes against humanity, including torture, false imprisonment, rape and murder during his reign between 1971 and 1986....
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Monday that former Serb nationalist politician and war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj is suing ICTY for USD $2.6 million in...
Romania's High Court of Cassation and Justice on Monday sentenced former prime minister Adrian Nastase to two years in prison on charges of graft and corruption . Referred...