Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday rendered a judgment against Jelena Rasic, sentencing her to 12 months imprisonment on contempt charges. The judgment...
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A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled Monday that Texas can begin enforcing a state law that requires women to have a sonogram before undergoing...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Proposition 8 , California's ban on same-sex marriage , is unconstitutional. The three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday elected its new president and vice president , who will each serve a term of three years. Judge Peter Tomka of Slovakia will serve as...
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed resigned on Tuesday after weeks of protests over the detainment of senior criminal court Judge Abdulla Mohamed, who was arrested last month for corruption . Nasheed, the country's first democratically-elected president, stepped down [press...
The UN released its annual report Monday on trends in female genital mutilation (FGM) , revealing that approximately 2,000 African communities have renounced the practice since last year . The UN Population...
The Court of Appeals in Milan on Monday announced that they will overturn a lower court's verdict on Tunisian former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamed Riadh Ben Nasri . Nasri was convicted of terrorism association two years...
US President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Monday imposing strict sanctions on Iran as part of an effort to enforce a bill he signed into law in December 2011. The bill, National Defense Authorization...
Muslim cleric Abu Qatada was granted bail Monday by a Special Immigration Appeals Commission in the UK. He made his application for bail after winning an appeal in the European Court of...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday urged Israel to change its policies that forbid Palestinians from traveling through and living in Gaza and the West Bank. The report describes the policy that causes...
