Amnesty International (AI) called Monday for Haitian authorities to prosecute the country's former president Jean-Claude Duvalier for human rights violations committed during his time in office. Duvalier returned to Haiti...
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Iran is on an "execution binge," killing one prisoner every eight hours, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said in a statement released on Sunday. Forty-seven prisoners have reportedly been executed in Iran since...
A federal judge on Friday told the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that it must investigate the destruction of interrogation tapes related to 9/11 and prevent similar incidents from happening in the...
A US Military panel has recommended in its latest report released Friday that women should be allowed to serve on the front lines of combat. The Military Leadership Diversity Commission (MLDC) , comprised of retired and...
The Supreme Court of Louisiana on Friday granted the request of a Louisiana federal judge who sought to permanently resign from practicing law. Ex-federal judge Thomas Porteous voluntarily surrendered his law license...
The Tunisia Constitutional Council on Saturday officially announced that President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has permanetly left the office of the president. The council, the country's highest legal authority on constitutional issues, declared that the leader of...
Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards was released from a federal prison Thursday after being allowed to finish the remainder of his sentence in home detention. Edwards has been in prison since 2002 when he was sentenced to...
UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk on Friday alleged that Israeli authorities had committed several illegal acts in the Palestinian territories since the start of the year, making the prospect of a viable Palestinian state unlikely....
US President Barack Obama on Friday ordered the Departments of State, Treasury, and Homeland Security to take steps to ease restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba. The new regulations, to be promulgated...
Amnesty International (AI) called for Hungary to amend its new media law that has caused outbreaks of public protests in Budapest and Vienna. The new law took effect January 1 and creates the National Media...
