Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif successfully returned to Pakistan after seven years in exile Sunday to lead his party in the upcoming parliamentary elections. He flew from Saudi Arabia...
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New Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told the Polish Parliament that his government will refuse to sign the European Charter of Fundamental Rights , part of the new EU Reform Treaty [JURIST...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has officially indicated that it will be unable to complete its work before the expiration of its December 2008 mandate. ICTR spokesman Roland Amoussouga made the announcement at a press...
The Bolivian Constitutional Assembly approved the text of a new draft constitution for the country Saturday, according to Constitutional Assembly President Silvia Lazarte. Bolivian President Evo Morales has sought a...
The Iraqi parliament Sunday conducted a preliminary reading of a proposed law that would allow former Baath Party members not convicted of any crimes to return to their previously held government...
US District Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California Friday stayed until March 24 a challenge to the implementation of new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations intended to...
Letter from French prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin to FIDH lawyer Patrick Boudoin, November 16, 2007 . Read...
Former chess champion and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov was arrested Saturday at a demonstration in Moscow against President Vladimir Putin , two weeks before parliamentary elections. AP...
Lawyers across Pakistan's populous Sindh province went on strike Friday to protest President Pervez Musharraf's emergency rule. Lawyers observed a strike call from the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) at the Sindh High Court in Karachi,...
The UN Committee against Torture said Friday it was concerned about ill-treatment and torture of detainees by Uzbekistan law enforcement officials. The committee issued a report concluding a three-week meeting in Geneva where it reviewed the...
