Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Samani Al-Wasilla on Thursday dismissed as politically motivated the latest report from the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) condemning Sudan for failing to arrest crimes against humanity...
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The US Department of Homeland Security fails to provide adequate medical care to HIV-positive immigration detainees, according to a report issued Friday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . HRW said DHS policies do...
Japanese officials executed three death row inmates Friday and publicly disclosed their identities for the first time under a new policy that the Justice Ministry of Japan says is designed to increase understanding about the death penalty....
Representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross have visited for the first time with detainees held in Iraqi prisons, according to a statement from the ICRC Thursday. ICRC spokesperson Dorothea Krimitsas said that ICRC monitors...
CIA Director Michael Hayden sent a memo to CIA employees Thursday saying that the agency videotaped the interrogations of two terror suspects in 2002, but that the tapes were destroyed in 2005 amid concerns that they could...
Sierra Club et al. v. Dale Bosworth et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, December 5, 2007 [striking down a Bush administration rule aimed at preventing urban forest fires as arbitrary and capricious, and holding that...
Pakistani Attorney General Malik Qayyum has reversed a decision to cut the size of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the wake of the November 3 declaration of emergency, according to Pakistan's News daily...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved a bipartisan bill that would allow television coverage of all open US Supreme Court hearings. The Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2007 would permit the Supreme...
Russia has extradited an Uzbek man sought on charges of religious extremism to his native Uzbekistan in defiance of a request by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) , a representative from the Russian...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday that Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church , is...
