Bahrain's Lower National Safety Court on Thursday sentenced nine citizens to 20 years in prison for kidnapping a police officer . The decision was announced by the government-owned Bahrain News Agency, without details of the charges or the...
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent a letter to the Bangladesh government Thursday praising its International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) to prosecute those responsible for atrocities committed during the 1971 struggle for independence, but urged the...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that a lawsuit by Argentine citizens can proceed against Daimler AG for the actions of Mercedes-Benz Argentina during...
At least 840 people were killed, and more than 6,000 were injured during the Egyptian revolution to oust former president Hosni Mubarak , according to an Amnesty International (AI) report released...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday urged the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to overturn a ruling declaring the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [HR 3590;...
An Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee believed to be an al Qaeda leader, was found dead in his cell in what appears to be a suicide , the US Southern Command announced Wednesday. Guards...
US Army prosecutors charged a sixth soldier on Tuesday for his involvement in a murder plot that led to the deaths of three Afghan civilians. Staff Sgt. David Bram of Joint Base Lewis-McChord is charged ...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the UN Security Council called Wednesday for continued reforms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in order to strengthen the country's rule of law. President...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into alleged crimes committed as a result of the disputed presidential elections last November, according to a letter [text,...
The Bulgarian government passed a long-delayed bill on Wednesday that allows "civil confiscation" of assets before conviction. This allows the Commission for Establishing of Property Acquired from Criminal Activity to launch investigations of people who cannot account...
