South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld a lower court's ruling that the state broke the law by not detaining Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir despite an International Criminal Court (ICC) order...

German law firm TISAB on Monday filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen AG on behalf of investors alleging a breach of duty to the capital market. The €3.255 billion lawsuit was brought in a German multi-regional...

A spokesperson for the Venice Commission, an advisory body within the Council of Europe , said Monday that the organization will investigate a new police surveillance law that was passed in Poland last December. The controversial law, passed by...

A Syrian has been arrested in Sweden on war crimes charges, according to the Swedish prosecutor's office Monday. The unnamed individual was arrested for suspected crimes against international law in Idlib, Syria, in 2012. Abdullah allegedly took part...

A court in Neubrandenburg, Germany, on Monday postponed the trial of a former Nazi SS medic because the 95-year-old remains unfit to appear before the court. The trial was scheduled to open on Monday, but the court announced a...

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed , expressed continued concern Monday regarding Iran's alarming rate of juvenile executions and other flaws in the justice system . Shaheed's report ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday announced the filing of an amicus brief in a US federal court arguing that the failure of US government officials to appoint lawyers to represent migrant children facing deportation violates their...

Egyptian Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zind was relieved of his position on Sunday after making controversial statements on television. After being asked a question regarding the imprisonment of journalists, al-Zind's responded that he would even imprison the Prophet Mohammed. The response...

UN human rights investigator Marzuki Darusman urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday to push for the prosecution of top North Korean government officials for crimes against humanity. Darusman stressed [HRW...

The Myanmar government on Monday release 46 underage and child recruits from the military. Myanmar has released 745 underage recruits since the country became a part of a UN joint action plan in 2012. The UN believes...