A jailed Venezuelan terrorist Wednesday appealed to the European Court of Human Rights , arguing that the eight years he spent in solitary confinement in a French prison was a breach of the European Convention...
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The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the US government for denying Swiss Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan entry into the United States under the ideological exclusion provision...
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will comply with a European Union antitrust ruling by licensing its Windows source code in order to allow competitors to...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning the human rights situation in Chechnya , citing numerous cases of murder, disappearances, torture, and other human rights abuses [JURIST...
A British appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's order that the Daily Telegraph pay damages and legal costs to British MP George Galloway after it found the newspaper had libeled Galloway...
Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, the eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was detained Wednesday at Dulles International Airport in Washington DC, according to a spokesperson from the Chilean government. Earlier this...
Two US agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Transportation Security Administration , have agreed to pay the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) $200,000 in attorneys fees to settle a case brought by...
Defense attorneys for admitted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui on Tuesday notified the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia of their plans to call expert witnesses to support their argument that Moussaoui should be spared...
Efforts to reach an agreement on a long-term renewal of the USA Patriot Act appear stalled as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. James Sensenbrenner , the House's chief negotiator, has said his chamber...
UK rights group Liberty will launch a challenge to the UK Terrorism Act 2000 in the House of Lords Wednesday, arguing that the law violates fundamental human rights. According to a new report from...
