British resident and Iraqi citizen Bisher al-Rawi is scheduled for release from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay , according to a statement by UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett in Parliament Thursday. Held...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied Thursday that the Japanese government had pressured a Shinto shrine to honor war criminals after the National Diet Library released documents suggesting that the government was deeply...
The Maryland Senate passed a bill Wednesday to ignore the US Electoral College in presidential elections, instead awarding the state's 10 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Currently, the state's...
A Japanese court threw out a lawsuit by a group of Japanese abandoned in China as children after Japan's defeat in World War II, officials said Thursday. Plaintiffs had alleged that the government was responsible for...
Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora Wednesday called on US law enforcement to take action to stop the flow of guns and drug money from the United States into Mexico . Mora told a gathering...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report Thursday detailing abuse and torture suffered by seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees at the hands of Russian law enforcement agencies since their release from...
A Muslim woman filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against a judge who asked her to remove her niqab in court, claiming the request violated her First Amendment right to practice her religion. In...
JURIST and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are hosting a one-day conference in Pittsburgh on Thursday in celebration of JURIST's 10th anniversary. Law as a Seamless Web|site features four panels and 14 distinguished speakers...
A judge in Ecuador on Wednesday reinstated 57 members of the legislature who had been dismissed earlier this month by the country's Supreme Electoral Tribunal . The reinstatements came one week after Ecuador swore...
The Russian Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Russian Peace Party was too small to be considered a legitimate political party under a 2004 law and should be shut down. According to the Federal Registration...