An Egyptian military court handed down its final verdict Tuesday in the military trial of 40 senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood , sentencing 25 of the accused to prison time and...
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The rule of law is a necessary prerequisite to achieving all eight of the UN's anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) , UN Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in...
China has disciplined nearly 3,000 people and imposed criminal penalties on over 530 more for their involvement in illegal land seizures, an official from the Chinese Law Enforcement and Supervision Bureau under the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources...
Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan said Tuesday he was resigning as head of the lawyer's association and then appeared to back away from that statement after a crowd of lawyers and...
The National Assembly of Senegal on Tuesday amended the Senegalese Constitution to give Senegalese courts jurisdiction over the trial of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre , who is...
Daniel Bellemare , the former Canadian federal prosecutor now heading the United Nations probe into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , asked the UN Security Council Tuesday to extend his...
A High Court judge in Harare agreed Tuesday to expedite a lawsuit seeking to compel the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) to immediately release the results of the nation's March 29 presidential elections , but continued to refrain from...
The Switzerland Foreign Ministry has barred former ICTY chief prosecutor and current Swiss ambassador to Argentina Carla Del Ponte from publicly promoting her new book "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals," according...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) is circumventing legal limits on its relatively narrow power to issue so-called national security letters (NSLs) by getting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to use its broader NSL-issuing...
The National League for Democracy (NLD), the main opposition party in Myanmar , on Wednesday urged citizens to reject the proposed constitution put forth by Myanmar's military government. In a statement to Reuters, an NLD spokesman appealed...
