The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit Wednesday against units of British Petroleum (BP) and several other companies over the April Deepwater Horizon oil spill ,...
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Kosovar Prime Minister Hasham Thaci was named Tuesday in a draft report by Council of Europe member Dick Marty as the "boss" of an illegal criminal enterprise that trafficked human...
Australia's new Afghan detainee transfer policy may violate international human rights laws , Amnesty International (AI) warned Tuesday. The new detainee management system, announced Tuesday by Australian Minister of Defence Stephen Smith ,...
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday issued summonses for six Kenyan citizens believed to be responsible for post-election violence in 2007 that resulted in more than 1,000...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday that e-mail is entitled to Fourth Amendment protection. The 98-page opinion overturned the prison sentence of Steven Warshak, the founder of Berkeley...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLUGA) filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of a Muslim woman who was arrested for refusing to remove her headscarf , or hijab, in...
Three former service members discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) filed a complaint against the Department of Defense (DOD) Monday, seeking reinstatement and the declaration that their...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed a joint expert opinion Tuesday urging a Spanish court to open an investigation into six former Bush administration...
An Alaskan Superior Court judge on Monday refused to block a law requiring parental notification for women under the age of 18 to have an abortion , allowing the law to take effect Tuesday. The law was...
A UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) expert on Monday urged Myanmar's military government to release 2,202 political prisoners . Tomas Ojea Quintana , a UN Special Rapporteur, called for the release of the...
