US lawyer and JURIST Forum contributor Peter Erlinder pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of Rwanda genocide denial. Rwandan prosecutors claim that as a result of his past American publications on the Rwandan...

Turkey’s Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB) has indefinitely restricted several Google services, including Google Docs and Google Translate, due to "legal reasons," according to local news reports . The TIB, which controls Internet accessibility in Turkey, released...

The US Army announced Friday that a soldier has been charged in the deaths of three Afghan civilians in separate incidents between January and May. Specialist Jeremy Morlock of Joint Base Lewis-McChord was charged with...

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Thursday announced during a local TV broadcast that he will not sign a controversial law that would grant him several presidential powers for life, even if he stepped down from...

Three tobacco companies on Thursday joined a lawsuit challenging a New York City Department of Health regulation requiring stores to display graphic anti-tobacco ads where tobacco products are sold. Altria Group, Lorillard, and...

Authorities in India announced Friday that Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab , the lone gunmen to survive the three-day siege of Mumbai that killed 166 in November 2008, has filed an appeal challenging his...

An Argentine federal court on Thursday commenced trial proceedings for five ex-military officials allegedly responsible for the death of 65 left-wing activists during the nation's 1976-83 "Dirty War" . The former dictators are charged with...

Senior UN officials on Thursday condemned the killing of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and called for an investigation into his murder. Chebeya was found dead in his car...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday pardoned or commuted the sentences of 81 protesters arrested following the disputed 2009 presidential election . The pardons were made upon the request...

UN rights experts on Thursday called on the UN Human Rights Council to investigate findings from a report released earlier this year detailing the secret imprisonment of terrorism suspects by...