Sri Lanka has failed to successfully investigate the issues of torture and impunity for past human rights violations in the country, Amnesty International (AI) said Monday on the eve of a review by the UN...
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The State Tax Service of the Ukraine is reopening four cases against former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , her lawyer reported on her website on Monday. The charges allege tax evasion...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday granted a temporary injunction to block the implementation of new requirements of graphic image and textual warning labels imposed by the...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in three cases. In Jackson v. Hobbs , the court will consider whether the imposition of a life-without-parole sentence on a 14-year-old child...
A Spanish court on Friday sentenced a former military leader of the Basque separatist group ETA , Francisco Javier Garcia Gatzelu, alias Txapote, to 105 years in prison for ordering the murder of Socialist politician Fernando Buesa and...
A special anti-terrorist court at the Palais de Justice in Paris began proceedings on Monday in the trial of alleged terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" accused of planning numerous bombings throughout France in the early 80s. Venezuelan-born Ilich...
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Saturday indicted seven people in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto . A senior officer and the former police chief of Rawalpindi, where the assassination took...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday issued a letter to Alabama's Attorney General Luther Strange , declaring its authority to investigate potential violations of civil rights laws. The letter, authored by Assistant Attorney...
Ohio Governor John Kasich on Friday signed into law House Bill 63 , creating further restrictions on minors if they seek an abortion without parental consent. The new law...
The New Jersey Superior Court Friday ruled that a marriage equality lawsuit can continue, partially denying a motion to dismiss filed by the New Jersey Attorney General . Lambda...
