The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced indictments Wednesday against 53 health care providers and beneficiaries accused of submitting $50 million in fraudulent Medicare claims. The indictments, returned by a grand jury in...
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Shackling techniques used by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet Security Agency (GSS) against Palestinian detainees are unjustifiably harsh and constitute torture, according to a report issued Wednesday by advocacy...
Chinese authorities have charged prominent rights activist Liu Xiaobo with "inciting subversion of state power" according to a Wednesday report by the state-run Xinhua news agency. Liu, who spent two...
Richmond Medical Center for Women, et al. v. Herring, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, June 24, 2009 [upholding a Virginia state law that bans 'partial birth' abortions, thereby reversing previous rulings that found the law...
Former Kosovo prime minister Agim Ceku was arrested in Bulgaria Tuesday at the Macedonian border on Serbian war crimes charges. Ceku is specifically charged by the Serbian Nis District Court with genocide in relation to the murder...
The Council of Europe (COE) on Tuesday urged substantial reforms to correct systemic problems in the Russian legal system, including the prevalence of political prosecutions and a lack of judicial independence. A report presented by...
A co-prosecutor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down in September for personal and family reasons. Canadian Robert Petit ,...
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei granted a request Wednesday to allow opposition candidates five additional days to submit complaints about the contested presidential election in Iran. The Guardian Council for the...
Several former detainees held at the US detention facility at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have alleged abuse while in custody, the BBC reported Wednesday. Interviews conducted over a two-month period with...
The War Crimes Council of the Belgrade District Court convicted a Croatian Serb of war crimes Tuesday for his involvement in the death of 200 Croatian POWs in 1991, sentencing him to 20...
