The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on Monday filed a criminal complaint against a high-ranking CIA official for mistreatment of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen who was detained and allegedly tortured for...

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Friday issued a temporary order allowing Texas officials to continue denying birth certificates to children of immigrants. Earlier this year a group of undocumented...

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two sets of cases, involving patent infringement damages and energy preemption, respectively. The first set, Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer and Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse...

UN Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono expressed "grave concern" Friday over the intensification of violence across Occupied Palestinian Territory. In his statement he urged Israel to "exercise restraint and to recognise that all, including Palestinians, have...

Vanuatu authorities arrested 11 lawmakers on Saturday who had last week pardoned themselves of their corruption convictions while the president was away from the country. The arrests came as President Baldwin Lonsdale revoked the pardons...

Greek lawmakers approved a bill early Saturday morning containing new austerity measures and economic overhauls under its new bailout program. All but one of the 155 members of the leftist Syriza , which now runs the government under...

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt agreed Friday to suspend all executions until his office has completed an investigation into the use of a wrong lethal injection drug during an execution last January. Pruitt...

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has accused the Taliban of Human rights abuses during the battle in Kunduz earlier this month. According to AIHRC at least 50 civilians were killed and...

UN human rights experts on Friday condemned Iran's execution of a juvenile offender convicted of murdering her husband whom she was forced to marry at the age of 16. Fatemeh Salbehi was executed on Tuesday despite several...

The leader of last month's attempted military coup in Burkina Faso, General Gilbert Diendere, was charged Friday with crimes against humanity. Prosecutor Col. Sita Sangare, Burkina Faso's director of military justice said that he has charged 23 people [Reuters...