Chinese officials on Friday suspended the law license of prominent human rights lawyer Li Jinxing. The Justice Bureau of the city of Jinan, where Li's license is apparently registered, made the announcement in an official notice. The bureau...

Turkey significantly halted the activities of 370 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including human rights and children's groups to investigate the groups' alleged terror connections. The groups affected include bar associations and bodies representing lawyers who have stated their intention...

Cincinnati trial judge Megan Shanahan declared a mistrial on Saturday after the jury declared that it was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on murder and manslaughter charges in a case involving the shooting of the unarmed Samuel DuBose, a...

Google's Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent Walker rejected EU allegations on Thursday that it abused its market dominance of its Android mobile phone operating system. Terming EU's concerns over how the company manages Android compatibility and distribute...

Lawyers for ousted former Brazil president Dilma Rousseff filed documents with the Superior Electoral Court in Brazil on Thursday alleging that her former vice president and current President Michel Temer took a large bribe. Specifically, the...

The Ivory Coast Constitutional Council on Friday affirmed the results of a referendum backing a new constitution, rejecting requests from several political parties, including that of former president Laurent Gbagbo , who boycotted the vote that the referendum be...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Colorado on Friday blocked Colorado officials from enforcing laws that prosecute or cite voters who take selfies at the ballots. Colorado Rev. Stat. § 1-13-712(1)...

The US Supreme Court issued an order on Thursday granting a last-minute stay of execution just as state officials in Alabama were preparing to execute Thomas Douglas Arthur by lethal injection. The application for the stay was...

For the first time in history, governments around the world have agreed to legally binding limits on global temperature rises as the Paris Agreement on climate change became effective on Friday. All governments that have ratified...

The UN General Assembly on Friday elected 14 member-states by secret ballot to serve three-year terms on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) beginning January 1. The newly elected countries include Brazil, Croatia, Egypt,...