An Israeli court on Thursday sentenced two minors for the murder of a Palestinian teenager. The court sentenced one of the minors to life in prison while the other received 21 years as they were believed to have had a...
Syrian refugee women are being abused in Lebanon, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report published Tuesday. The report explains how the refusal by the Lebanese government to renew permits causes refugee women to...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday rejected a Georgia death row inmate's legal challenge. The federal appeals court rejected inmate Brandon Astor Jones' challenge to Georgia law that shields the identity...
Lithuania began war crime trials for 65 former Soviet military officials on Wednesday. The officials are accused of committing crimes against humanity during the 1991 crackdown by the Soviet Union during Lithuania's independence movement. The action resulted in...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana (ACLU) and the Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission (IPAS) reached a settlement agreement on Wednesday with the Department of Corrections over the treatment of...
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that the president's National Security Council (NSC) is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) . The appeals court denied...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported Thursday that "shocking crimes" have been committed by all sides in the war-torn South Sudan. The report said that extra-judicial killings, disappearances, gang-rapes, sexual...
The EU's justice mission in Kosovo (EULEX) sentenced a Serb politician to nine years in prison for war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians on Thursday. Oliver Ivanovic was arrested in January 2014 for the...
A German court on Tuesday ruled against the legality of the taxi-hailing app Mytaxi . Mytaxi began offering cab rides for half the regular price in several cities if customers agreed to an electronic payment method instead of cash....
The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday reversed a Tokyo District Court ruling from 2014 regarding the death of a detained immigrant. Immigration authorities were under investigation after restraining Abubakar Awudu Suraj, ultimately leading to his death....