Nigerian lawyers have begun a two-day boycott of the country's courts in protest at what they say is "failure of the government to comply with court orders and the violation of human rights." Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) ...
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Turkey has urged European countries to reexamine their religious defamation laws and ensure that they protect Muslims in the wake of the Muhammad cartoons controversy . At a weekend conference of EU foreign ministers in Austria, Turkish...
The Supreme Court of Indonesia has denied the appeal of pro-Indonesia militia leader Eurico Guterres for charges stemming from his involvement in massacres that occurred during the 1999 violence in East...
Russian Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Monday that they had received a letter written by Slobodan Milosevic on March 8 complaining about his medical care while in prison at The Hague and pressed for Russian medical experts...
Eight people have been charged in Zimbabwe with plotting the assassination of President Robert Mugabe following the arrests of 15 suspects on Friday. Several members of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party...
A former Iraqi judge on trial with Saddam Hussein testified Monday in Baghdad that he sentenced 148 Shiites to death after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former dictator in the town of Dujail, but asserted...
The annual six-week meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva was suspended after just four minutes on Monday to give the 191 member governments of the UN General Assembly more time to...
A member of the elite Special Air Service special forces of the British Army who refused to return to Iraq and later left British military service said in an interview published in the UK...
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi called Italy's judiciary the disease of our democracy in a weekend TV interview, promising changes to the judicial system as he himself faces the possibility of a new trial before...
Resolution relating to the censure of George W. Bush, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), March 12, 2006 .Read the full...
