Chinese Human Rights Defenders Friday criticized the Chinese government for continuing to persecute and intimidate human rights defenders such as lawyers, academics and journalists in a report issued...
Freedom of the press suffered serious setbacks around the world in 2006, according to a new report from Freedom House . The study, Freedom of the Press 2007: A Global Survey of Media Independence, noted...
Former US Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified Thursday that seven of eight prosecutors at the center of the US Attorney firing scandal were performing their jobs well before being dismissed, and that the...
The convicted assassin and terrorist known popularly as "Carlos the Jackal" - Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - may soon be forced to stand trial in France for his alleged participation in four...
The Romanian Constitutional Court Thursday upheld an opposition-sponsored bill making it easier to remove the country's president by reducing the number of popular votes required for impeachment. Existing legislation requires more than half of Romania's citizens to...
The US House of Representatives Thursday approved a bill to expand federal hate crimes legislation to include violent attacks against people based on gender or sexuality. The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes...
Lawyers for the Canadian government said in an affidavit Thursday that Canada and Afghanistan have formally signed a new agreement allowing for monitoring of prisoners transferred from Canadian to Afghan custody as a safeguard against torture and abuse. Following...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday ruled that Poland violated the rights of a group of gay rights activists by refusing to authorize a 2005 rally in Warsaw....
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was arrested by authorities upon being returned to his home country of Morocco has been released from custody, relatives reported. Criminal charges against Ahmed Errachidi were...
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) announced Thursday that it has formed a coalition with a small opposition Motherland Party of Turkey (ANAP) to pass a...