A Brazilian court on Saturday sentenced 25 police officers to lengthy prison terms for their role in the 1992 Carandiru prison massacre. Each defendant was sentenced to 624 years for the use of deadly force during the...
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A jury for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia recommended Friday that three Somali pirates convicted of murdering four Americans receive life in prison sentences. The attack, which took place in...
Israel's coalition government on Sunday approved a draft bill that would require the government to submit any proposed peace deal with Palestinians to voters for approval by referendum. The bill would exist as Basic Law...
Following the country's parliamentary elections on Sunday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) alleged in an email that an opposing party's claims of victory were incorrect due to poll irregularities. The CNRP claimed in its...
The North Carolina Senate on Thursday approved a bill requiring abortion clinics to meet requirements similar to those for outpatient surgical centers. The new bill also requires that doctors be present during abortions,...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Thursday urged Egyptian authorities to apply law and order in addition to safety and security in addressing the protests arising after the military's ouster [JURIST...
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said Friday that attacks on UN peacekeepers in the Darfur region of Sudan may constitute war crimes. A recent attack left seven UN peacekeepers from Tanzania dead...
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police must obtain search warrants before obtaining tracking information from cell phone providers. The unanimous ruling marks the first time a state supreme court has recognized a...
Judge Joe Heaton of the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on Friday granted Hobby Lobby a temporary exemption from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text; JURIST...
Russian political activist and lawyer Alexei Navalny was freed from jail on Friday, less than 24 hours after he was sentenced to five years for embezzling 16 million rubles (USD $500,000). Navalny and his co-defendant,...
