Former Illinois governor George Ryan was transferred Wednesday to home confinement to serve the remainder of his six-and-a-half-year prison sentence imposed after several corruption-related convictions in 2006. The ex-governor was originally sent to a Chicago halfway...
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Retired Michigan Supreme Court justice Diane Hathaway pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony bank fraud as part of a plea agreement . The charges arose from Hathaway deeding her home in Florida to a...
The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday expressed regret that the Israeli government failed to send a representative to the Council's review of Israel's human rights record. The council had planned to begin its review...
The Dutch District Court of The Hague ruled Wednesday that a subsidiary of Shell could be held liable to one farmer for damages resulting from polluting the Niger Delta region in southern Nigeria. However, the...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Tuesday accepted a plea agreement between British Petroleum (BP) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) ...
An Egyptian court on Tuesday upheld the in absentia death sentences of seven Coptic Christians and an American preacher on charges stemming from the amateur anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims , which sparked violent protests in the Middle...
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder sent a letter to the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court on Monday requesting an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of the state's right to work law. Under...
Myanmar's state-run newspaper Myanma Ahlin reported Tuesday that President Thein Sein abolished Order No. 2/88, which banned gathering and delivering speeches in public by a group of five or more people. The order, which was established in...
The UK Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that a Criminal Records Bureau law requiring individuals to divulge all previous convictions to certain groups of employers is a breach of human rights. The court...
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Monday warned the Malian government over reports of human rights abuses by Malian forces. In the statement, Bensouda urged Malian authorities to put an...
