Kenyan military forces tortured over 4,000 suspected rebels in a recent crackdown against the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF), according to a report released Monday by human rights group Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) . The group accused soldiers...
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Zimbabwean lawyers Monday appealed for the release of several hundred opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members detained after police raids on Friday, saying that the the MDC members were being held in defiance of...
The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand Indiana's controversial voter identification statute , which requires voters to present photo identification as a prerequisite to voting. The decision comes in Crawford...
The US Justice Department told a member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee that abusive or humiliating interrogations of terror suspects ostensibly prohibited by the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions on "outrages upon personal dignity"...
ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Saturday called on the government of Sudan to arrest and surrender two war crimes suspects wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) . In a statement noting that arrest...
Ugandan police arrested three journalists Saturday as part of an investigation into suspected sedition, according to the journalists' lawyer. The journalists worked on two articles published in the Independent magazine that were critical of the Ugandan military....
Opposition members of the Mexican Congress have ended their protest against a proposed energy reform bill backed by Mexican President Felipe Calderon , after the ruling party agreed to allow further debate on the bill. Members...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the State Secrets Protection Act , sending the legislation to the Senate floor for consideration. The legislation, approved by a 11-8 vote on Thursday, would place restrictions on...
US Army Sgt. 1st Class Trey A. Corrales was acquitted by a military jury on Friday of charges connected to the 2007 killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian near the city of Kirkuk . Corrales was...
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing an antitrust class action lawsuit against a group of banks that require credit cardholders to use arbitration...
