The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit seeking an order compelling Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to stop visiting the Yasukuni war shrine , a shrine that honors all Japanese war dead, including war...
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Human rights groups have condemned the decision of the al-Warraq Misdemeanor Court in Egypt to sentence controversial newspaper editor Ibrahim Eissa to a year in prison for publishing a report critical of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [official...
A London-based civil liberties group has asked data-protection and privacy officials in more than a dozen countries to prevent the further release of confidential financial information to American authorities. The watchdog group, Privacy International , said...
Nepalese officials have delayed the drafting of an interim constitution, which will allow Maoist rebels to join an interim government, for at least another two weeks, according to Laxman Prasad Aryal, a former Supreme Court Justice and leader of...
Dutch Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk on Tuesday reversed an earlier decision revoking citizenship from former MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali , who was born in Somalia. Ali resigned from the Dutch parliament in May after...
Former US attorney general turned Saddam Hussein defense lawyer Ramsey Clark told a Washington press conference Tuesday that executing Saddam only would only precipitate more sectarian violence in Iraq. He made the comment only a few days...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday held in the consolidated cases of Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Bustillo v. Johnson that suppression of statements given to the police is...
The US Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks Wednesday that the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections could set regulations forbidding the most difficult inmates from reading...
Guards at Guantanamo Bay found nooses in prisoners' cells after three detainees committed suicide earlier this month by hanging themselves using clothing and bed linens, according to the US detention center's commander. Rear Adm....
The US Supreme Court held Wednesday in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry and three other consolidated cases that only one of the new voting districts...
