An Argentine court on Friday suspended its decision to release up to 20 suspects who are accused of committing human rights violations during the country's military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, known as the "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST...
Four white Zimbabwean farmers were charged Thursday with trespassing on state property for failing to vacate farms that were seized by the government. The charges are in defiance of a November ruling by the South African Development Community Tribunal...
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said Friday that 23 employees of the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior who were arrested this week for alleged attempts to rebuild Saddam Hussein's Baath party [BBC backgrounder; JURIST...
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged Indian President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil to reject the recently passed Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment of 2008 (UAPA) , which would allow the government to hold...
A Canadian Federal Court judge ruled Thursday that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) must stop monitoring phone calls between terrorism suspects and their lawyers and must erase any such calls that it accidentally records....
The UN General Assembly was divided Thursday over the the issue of decriminalizing homosexuality as 66 nations signed a statement calling for decriminalization, and nearly 60 nations signed an opposing statement. The representative from Argentina,...
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has ordered the Pentagon to draft a proposal for shutting down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in preparation for a possible order from President-elect Barack...
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz said Thursday that the tribunal may not be able to meet the UN deadline of 2010 for completing its work. Brammertz said that...
An Italian court in Milan Thursday sentenced Parmalat SpA founder Calisto Tanzi to 10 years in prison for his role in the collapse of the Italian dairy giant. Tanzi is the first...
India's upper house of parliament the Rajya Sabha on Thursday approved two anti-terrorism bills in response to the recent Mumbai terror attacks . One bill, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment of 2008 (UAPA) will...