Protesters led by Thailand's People's Alliance for Democracy petitioned the country's National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) Monday, asking it to bring new corruption charges against government officials and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC...

Turkish prosecutors indicted 86 alleged members of the secular Ergenekon group Monday for allegedly attempting to destabilize and overthrow the country's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) . The group is believed responsible for bombing the...

Singapore's Ministry of Law Wednesday rejected claims by the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) that the country lacks an independent judiciary and fails to meet international standards of human rights. In its response...

The Italian Chamber of Deputies , the country's lower house of parliament, approved legislation Thursday that would grant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday told the European Parliament that the European Union (EU) should quickly resolve conflicts over the proposed EU reform treaty , formally...

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday said the recent acquittal of Bosnian Muslim war crimes suspect Naser Oric by the International Criminal Tribunal for...

Israeli rights group Yesh Din published an update Tuesday to its 2006 report detailing the lack of investigations and prosecutions of Israeli settlers who commit crimes against Palestinians [JURIST news...

The US government is preventing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from paying lawyers defending Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects on trial before US military commissions , ACLU director Anthony Romero said Tuesday. Lawyers for the...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg Tuesday signed an agreement allowing the US to install ballistic missile radar systems in the Czech Republic, prompting an immediate Russian...

An en-banc panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday released a ruling granting broad deference to the National Forest Service (NFS) when making decisions regarding the impact of...