A Nashville judge ended a four-month moratorium on executions Wednesday, declaring Tennessee's modified method of lethal injection constitutional. In November, Davidson County Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman ruled that the state's method of lethal injection violated...
Five Japanese citizens filed suit in the Tokyo District Court on Monday challenging the constitutionality of a civil law that forces married couples to choose a single surname. The plaintiffs claim that Article 750 of...
The Croatian Ministry of Justice on Wednesday asked France to extradite former Serb paramilitary fighter Milorad Momic, according to a report by state television. Momic, who has allegedly been living under...
A total of 98.83 percent of nearly 3.8 million southern Sudanese voters voted in favor of secession in last month's Southern Sudan's Independence Referendum, according to the final polling results released Monday by the Southern Sudan Referendum...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that the Detroit Immigration Court has ordered the removal of a Michigan man accused of killing Jews while serving as a member of the Nazi-sponsored...
Thailand's "red shirt" pro-democracy movement on Monday petitioned the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch a preliminary investigation into whether the government committed crimes against humanity during the Bangkok protests...
Chile Supreme Court Judge Sergio Munoz on Thursday ordered an investigation into the death of former socialist president Salvador Allende during the 1973 coup . Since the coup,...
EU member states and the UN have failed to adequately respond to human rights abuses and violations, according to the Human Rights Watch (HRW) annual report published Monday. The report accuses countries of...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday said that a team of experts will be sent to Tunisia within the next week to assess the human rights priorities and meet with interim...
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt sent a letter on Wednesday to Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi requesting that Florida add Kansas as an additional party plaintiff to its lawsuit ...