Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Monday that he favors amending the controversial Article 301 of Turkey's penal code without eliminating the provision altogether. The article makes...
The cabinet of the Somali transitional government approved a new anti-terrorism law allowing sentences of life imprisonment or execution for engaging in or funding terrorist activity, Somalia's Information Minister Madow Nunow Mohamed announced Monday. The law, which...
A Sudanese Foreign Ministry official said Monday that Sudan will prevent a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation team from entering the country unless the UN agrees to replace team member Bertrand Ramcharan [official...
The Assets Examination Committee in Thailand , charged with investigating allegations of corruption by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his family, recommended Monday that criminal tax evasion charges be filed against...
A German state court in Stuttgart ruled Monday that Brigitte Mohnhaupt , a second-generation member of the ultra-left German group Red Army Faction , also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, will be granted parole on March 27...
International donors urged Cambodia Monday to finally pass an anti-corruption law that has been in the works for more than a decade. US Ambassador to Cambodia Joseph Mussomeli expressed disappointment on behalf of donors such as Japan,...
Egyptian officials on Sunday released from detention Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr , the man at the heart of Italian judicial proceedings against US and Italian intelligence agents implicated in his alleged 2003 kidnapping [JURIST news archive;...
The Philippines government has pledged to cooperate fully with the UN rights official who arrived in the country Monday to investigate the surge of political murders. In a statement on behalf of Philippines President Gloria Arroyo [official website; BBC...
The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) sentenced former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan to death by hanging Monday in connection with crimes against humanity committed in the town of...
The Portuguese government plans to seek approval in the Portuguese Parliament of a proposal to make abortion legal in the country, despite low turnout in Sunday's referendum on loosening the current law [text,...