A Turkish court on Friday lifted a ban on YouTube two days after the court banned the popular video-sharing website . The court had ordered telecom providers in the country to block access because of videos...
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The Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament , voted Saturday to approve a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups that allegedly committed war crimes . The resolution, revised by...
Top US Justice Department officials moved quickly Friday to acknowledge fault and apologize for illegal activities after a sharply critical DOJ inspector general's report on Patriot Act investigative practices revealed that the FBI broke and misused...
A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters, US Department of Justice, March 9, 2006 [report criticizing the FBI for ineffective management, monitoring and reporting of the national security letters and ex parte orders for...
A Swiss court Friday convicted Turkish Workers Party leader Dogu Perincek for denying that the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I constituted genocide . The Swiss canton...
US military hearings on whether 14 top terror suspects formerly held in CIA secret prisons qualify as "enemy combatants" began Friday at Guantanamo Bay . Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs)...
The Cambodian government uses systematic human rights and civil liberty violations to maintain its hold on power, according to a report by UN special rights representative Yash Ghai and obtained by AFP. The report listed illegal land...
Ugandan judges Friday agreed to call off a strike after President Yoweri Museveni wrote a letter to the judiciary, expressing regret for a March 1 siege of the Ugandan High Court . The judges went on...
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday invoked the Second Amendment to reverse a lower court ruling and strike down a three-decades old ban on individuals in the District of Columbia having handguns in...
A federal judge in Argentina Thursday ordered former president Reynaldo Bignone arrested for his alleged role in disappearances and human rights abuses during Argentina's 1976-83 "Dirty War". Judge Alberto Suarez...
