South African President Thabo Mbeki insisted in an official resignation speech Sunday that allegations of his interference with the judiciary in the context of the Jacob Zuma case were incorrect. Top ANC officials called...
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A US federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction requiring US Vice President Dick Cheney to preserve all his official records pending resolution of a lawsuit alleging that his office has failed...
Pakistani Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar swore in four previously ousted judges as new members of the country's Supreme Court Saturday, bringing the number of the judges on the reconstituted court to 29. Justice Sardar...
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ruled that the civil rights of former Army Special Forces officer Diane Schroer were violated after a job offer to...
The Pentagon on Friday announced that US Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann , the controversial legal advisor to the US military commissions at Guantanamo and supervisor of the Office of Military Commissions-Prosecution...
Diane J. Schroer v. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, US District Court for the District of Columbia, September 20, 2008 [ruling that the civil rights of a former Army Special Forces officer were violated after a job offer to...
Thabo Mbeki announced Saturday that he would resign as president of South Africa in the wake of allegations that he had interfered in a corruption case against political rival and current African National Congress leader...
Council of Europe (COE) Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg expressed concern with several UK asylum and immigration procedures in a memorandum released Friday. The memorandum was the result of visits by Hammarberg to...
The Venezuelan government ordered two senior officials of Human Rights Watch (HRW) to leave the country Thursday night after the group released a report concluding that democracy and human rights have suffered during the presidency...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Thursday filed a class action lawsuit seeking injunctive, declaratory and equitable relief from the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless surveillance program ,...
