A German prosecutor on Monday recommended that a 94-year-old man living in Minnesota be charged with 40 counts of murder for his involvement in an attack that razed a Polish village to the ground in 1944. An earlier investigation...
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An international team of lawyers on Saturday accused the Egyptian military and the country's interim government of crimes against humanity and a number of human rights abuses since president Mohammed Morsi was ousted ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday called on the Turkish government to investigate the bombing of two villages that killed 33 civilians in 1994. A unanimous court issued its preliminary judgment,...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday sentenced Somali pirate Ahmed Muse Salad to life in prison without parole for his involvement in the deaths of four Americans off...
A federal judge on Monday recommended that e-mails and other data collected by a large due-diligence firm for Wall Street banks should be turned over to the Department of Justice (DOJ) , a move that may determine which...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three cases. In Bond v. United States the court heard arguments on whether there are limits to Congress' authority to intrude...
US Attorney General Eric Holder said at an unrelated press conference on Monday that the slow pace of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the alleged mastermind behind 9/11,...
The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries on Monday urged governments to implement a binding international agreement to regulate the activities of private military and security companies (PMSCs). The working group found that...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a 2011 state law restricting the use of chemical-abortions is unconstitutional, reaffirming the court's 2012 decision . The law imposes broad and stringent...
The pre-trial judge for the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) on Monday transferred the case files for Ayyash et al. to the trial chamber, marking the start of the transition...
