The Chinese government released two democracy activists Thursday after serving eight years of their ten-year prison sentences, according to US-based Human Rights in China (HRIC) . The two activists, Yang Zili and Zhang Yonghai, were...
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The Sri Lankan government Saturday denied allegations by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay that recent Sri Lankan military action against the separatist...
The government of Switzerland said Friday it will follow standards set by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) , adopting a more stringent definition of tax evasion and agreeing...
The US Department of Justice dropped the term "enemy combatant" from its legal lexicon Friday while limiting the range of persons eligible to be held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Summarizing a memo [PDF...
A former official of the China Ministry of Justice criticized torture and violence in Chinese prisons Friday, calling for greater security measures in correctional facilities. The comments come following the February...
The Supreme Court of Afghanistan upheld a 20-year prison sentence for blasphemy against Afghani journalism student Sayad Parwaz Kambaksh in a secret February hearing, according to statements by his lawyer quoted in Thursday media...
A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday indefinitely froze the assets of financier Allen Stanford at the instance of the US Securities and Exchange Commission...
The US Senate on Thursday confirmed David Ogden as the new Deputy Attorney General by a vote of 65-28 . In debate Wednesday, Republicans opposed to the nomination focused on Ogden's actions...
A Serbian war crimes court in Belgrade convicted 13 Serbs Thursday in connection with the 1991 killings of over 200 Croatian POWs at a pig farm outside the Croatian town of Vukovar . Eighteen Serbs were...
Members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement and opposition politicians and supporters began a "long march" from Karachi to Islamabad Thursday against the government of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari ...
