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A German administrative court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Khaled El-Masri seeking the arrest and extradition of 13 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents whom El-Masri claims kidnapped and illegally detained...

Trials began Wednesday in Kyrgyzstan for former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his administration officials who have been charged with mass murder. The charges stem from an April 7 incident in which police...

Cuban officials on Saturday released the first of 13 dissident prisoners who refused to go into exile as part of an agreement reached between Cuba, Spain, and the Vatican. The prisoner, Arnoldo Ramos Lauzurique, was one of...

The Myanmar Supreme Court on Friday heard the final appeal filed by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi challenging the extension of her house arrest. The hearing comes two weeks before Suu Kyi's house...

The Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled Wednesday that a witness does not have to remove her niqab unless the failure to do so will prevent the accused from receiving a fair...

The French Constitutional Council ruled Thursday that a bill making it illegal to wear the Islamic burqa , niqab or other full...

Dutch politician Geert Wilders said Thursday that the Netherlands will ban the burqa and other full Islamic veils as part of the government's plan to form a minority coalition. The Liberals and...

Joe Gonzales, University College London M.A. Human Rights '10, is a current intern with Survival International. He writes on the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve's struggle to secure water rights from the Botswanan government... On July 21 the...

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged the government of Myanmar to release all political prisoners ahead of the nation's November elections—the first to be held in 20 years. Myanmar currently holds 2,200 political prisoners, the...

A man found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 1985 Air India bombings was found guilty Saturday of perjury. Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted for his role in the 1985...