The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) released a previously classified opinion on Tuesday explaining why a National Security Agency (NSA) program to keep records of Americans' phone calls is constitutional. The opinion, written...
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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , the tribunal covering the Khmer Rouge trials said Wednesday that it has obtained a loan to pay the overdue salaries of its workers....
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the head of the Rights and Freedoms Working Group for Yemen's National Dialogue to incorporate protections for women in the country's new constitution. Yemen's National Dialogue...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday found that voting restrictions for convicted persons in Turkey are too harsh and in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights . Soyler, a Turkish...
Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Gehad al-Haddad on suspicion of incitement of violence. Al-Haddad has been the primary spokesperson for the supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi [BBC...
The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) on Tuesday acquitted Fatmir Limaj , a close ally of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci , of war crimes charges. Limaj was accused...
FBI powers have expanded rapidly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks , according to a report released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , which called on the...
Paulo Pinheiro, the chairman of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria , said Monday that the vast majority of Syrian casualties are killed in unlawful conventional weapon attacks and called for an end to weapons...
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Tuesday sentenced Abdul Quader Mollah, assistant secretary general of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) , to death. This overturned a February ruling by the International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commission responsible for investigating potential human rights violations in North Korea on Tuesday reported widespread human rights abuses occurring in the country. The Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights...
