Rwanda's Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a case challenging a change to the constitution that would allow President Paul Kagame to run for a third seven-year term. The effort to extend the term limit has...
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Ukrainian officials on Tuesday accepted International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over crimes that may have occurred since February of last year. Fighting and political clashes between Russian and Ukrainians loyalists after Russia's annexation...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported Tuesday that approximately 8,000 people have been killed in Eastern Ukraine since April of last year. Much of the killing has...
Former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina , labeled a "flight risk," was jailed in a preventive prison pending investigation on Tuesday following an indictment over corruption charges. The judge gave the prosecution...
The city of Baltimore on Tuesday reached a tentative agreement with the family of Freddie Gray worth $6.4 million. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the settlement will now be sent to the Baltimore Board of Estimates...
Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses due to personal beliefs, was released from jail on Tuesday. District Judge David Bunning of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky...
The International Criminal Court has requested that South Africa provide an explanation for the country's failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . As an ICC member, South Africa was required to arrest Bashir...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned the recent "crackdown" on dissent in Azerbaijan, denouncing the imprisonment of journalist and human rights activist Khadija Ismayilova . In particular, Zeid...
The People's High Court for the eastern Chinese province of Anhui on Monday publicly apologized to 19 people for their wrongful convictions. The court's apology appeared in a local paper, stating that the court wished to restore...
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Sunday lifted a ban on the release of a documentary film that depicted the rescue of a woman 17-days after the 2013 garment factory disaster. The movie producer appealed ...
