French judge Catherine Marchi-Uhel was appointed as Head of the International Impartial and Independent Mechanism on Monday to collect evidence concerning persons involved in Syrian war crimes over the last six years. Marchi-Uhel has experience in criminal law,...
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A Colorado-based watchdog group, the Coalition for Good Governance, and six Georgia voters filed a lawsuit on Monday to throw out the most recent election results for the Georgia House of Representatives. The June 20 election was a...
Poland's special prosecutors have requested the US extradite a Minnesota man accused of Nazi war crimes. Michael Karkoc, 98, is a former commander of an SS-led Nazi unit responsible for burning Polish villages and killing civilians during World...
Armed groups have been committing war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) , according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) detailing violence in three central provinces between November 2014 and April...
Two UN human rights experts have urged Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to halt the planned execution of a man with psychological disabilities. William Morva, a US Hungarian national, was convicted and sentenced to death for the...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday ruled 2-1 that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot suspend a rule requiring oil and gas companies to fix and reduce...
The Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida ruled on Monday that amendments made to the state's "stand your ground" laws last month are unconstitutional. Specifically, Judge Milton Hirsch found that SB 128, the law in question,...
The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) , Maciej Szpunar, on Tuesday declared that EU member states were entitled to "prohibit and punish the illegal exercise of a transport activity such as UberPop without...
Florida Governor Rick Scott on Monday scheduled the execution of Mark Asay which will be the state's first execution in nearly two years. The execution of death row inmates in Florida had been halted after their sentencing procedure...
The Peru Congress on Monday unanimously voted to remove the Comptroller, Edgar Alarcon, from office. The vote to remove Alarcon was initiated over accusations that he gave public funds to the mother of his...
