Iraq's Presidency Council on Friday approved the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the western media as "Chemical Ali," after months of deliberations over the fate of al-Majid and two other men...
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One in every 100 US adults is currently in prison, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States (PCS) . The report found that males were 17 times more...
US Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Thursday called for the US Justice Department to launch a grand jury investigation to determine if misdemeanor contempt of Congress charges should be prosecuted...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday upheld a district court's denial of an emergency injunction to block enforcement of an Arizona law that penalizes employers who hire...
Serbian Justice Minister Dusan Petrovic signed an extradition request Thursday for the widow and son of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic . Mirjana Markovic and her son Marko currently...
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque signed two international human rights treaties on Thursday, making Cuba party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...
A key witness in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been moved into hiding after being threatened for testifying before the Special Court for Sierra Leone...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled against the deportation of former Tunisian terror suspect Nassim Saadi, finding that evidence provided by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch showed that he...
An Indonesian court Thursday dismissed a civil corruption case against Tommy Suharto , the youngest son of former Indonesian President Haji Mohammad Suharto . The court also awarded some $550,000 to Suharto on a...
Afghan Deputy Chief Judge Mohammed Omar Ishaqzai said that Afghan journalism student Sayad Parwaz Kambaksh should be permitted to appeal a death sentence that resulted from a trial where he says he was not represented by a lawyer [JURIST...
