Lawyers for the families of three Bosnian Muslims killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Friday filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) seeking to bring charges against...
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Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Shiite Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who was found guilty of sedition and other charges following his involvement in the 2011 Arab Spring Movement. Nimr's brother made the announcement...
Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was detained last year after returning from treating Ebola patients in Africa, has filed a lawsuit against New Jersey government officials for holding her against her will and violating her constitutional rights....
US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara on Thursday dropped a high-profile insider trading case, stating that he is moving to dismiss the charges against seven defendants. The defendants are former...
Argentina on Sunday opened its first round of voting for the country's new presidential election. The new president will replace current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who is now serving her second term and thus...
A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Corrections on Thursday said that a death row inmate has requested death by electrocution for the first time in nearly twenty years. The inmate, Wayne Doty, was sentenced ...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Friday affirmed by a vote of 2-1 the dismissal of a Bivens action filed by a US citizen alleging that...
US President Barack Obama on Thursday vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 (NDAA) because military defense spending would exceed caps set under the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the...
At a press conference on Friday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights shared concerns over the "rapidly worsening security and human rights situation in Burundi," noting that 198 people have...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called on the European Union (EU) and Western Balkans states to focus on remedying what it characterizes as deplorable conditions for asylum-seekers in Europe. With hundreds of thousands of...
