Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Canada's House of Commons on Wednesday passed bill S-226 , the "Magnitsky Act," which would allow for the Canadian government to take "restrictive measures in respect of foreign...

Canada's House of Commons on Wednesday passed bill S-226 , the "Magnitsky Act," which would allow for the Canadian government to take "restrictive measures in respect of foreign nationals responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human...

Spain's Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the suspension of Catalonia's planned parliamentary session on independence next week warning Catalan parliament speaker Carme Forcadell and other members of his speakers' board that they will be subject to prosecution if...

The lower house of the French parliament on Tuesday voted 415-127 to approve an anti-terrorism bill that would increase police surveillance powers and enable authorities to close places of worship easier that are suspected of being a...

The German public prosecutor accusesd nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) leader, Frauke Petry Wednesday, of giving false statements about campaign finance under oath. Petry is accused of lying to a committee of the regional...

Spain's High Court announced on Wednesday that Calalonia's police and organizers are under investigation for sedition, most notably Catalonia's regional police, Josep Lluis Trapero. Trapero is being called to testify in relation to arrests of high-ranking...

Egyptian authorities are waging an anti-lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and intersex (LGBTI) campaign, having arrested a total of 33 individuals, according to a statement by Amnesty International (AI) on Monday. The crackdown began because of a rainbow flag...

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, was convicted and sentenced by a Moscow court to 20 days in jail on Monday after for calling on his supporters to join him in an unauthorized rally in Nizhny Nov­gorod. Russian officials...

Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev signed an agreement Monday demarcating 85 percent of the 1,280 kilometer Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. The Kyrgyzstan parliament had already approved the legislation early in September, but the president signing the "Draft...

Carles Puigdemont, leader of the Catalonia government, announced Monday that the autonomous Spanish region had "won the right to an independent state in the form of a republic" after conducting a heated referendum in the region, despite the...