Yemeni officials on Thursday amended a law that would have given complete immunity to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and all of his associates, limiting it to politically motivated crimes for Saleh's aides....
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Haitian Judge Ezekiel Vaval convicted eight police officers on Thursday for their participation in the shooting and killing of at least 10 prisoners after the January 2010 earthquake . The judge also found that six other police...
The US Supreme Court ruled Friday rejected Texas's interim redistricting maps. The emergency appeal challenged an interim map drawn up by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas while a...
The Ingolstadt Prosecutor's Office filed a motion on Thursday to jail Klaas Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands in 1947 of Nazi war crimes. He is one...
US officials on Wednesday announced charges against seven individuals purportedly involved in a $62 million insider trading scheme. The individuals, who worked for five different investment institutions, are accused of earning illegal profits on the basis of insider...
The Ethiopian Federal High Court on Thursday convicted three Ethiopian journalists, a political opposition leader and a politician's assistant for conspiring to commit acts of terrorism in violation of the country's Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009...
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani honored a summons issued by the Supreme Court of Pakistan by appearing Thursday to answer contempt charges brought by the court earlier this week ....
Chinese authorities on Wednesday sentenced a prominent rights activist to 10 years in prison, marking the third such sentence in a month. Dissident Li Tie was sentenced for subversion . The charges were brought in response to pro-democracy...
A panel of Australian citizens on Thursday proposed that the country's Constitution recognize the Australian indigenous population , including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Currently, although Aborigines make up almost three percent of the Australian population,...
A coalition of Middle Eastern human rights organizations on Thursday accused all parties involved in the Libya conflict of human rights violations and crimes against humanity. Three organizations were involved in the fact-finding mission [press...
