UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Tuesday urged the Chadian government and rebel forces to follow humanitarian law and respect human rights as fighting continued for a fourth day after rebels entered the capital...
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UN rights chief urges Chad fighters to respect humanitarian law
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Private government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Tuesday urged US Attorney General Michael Mukasey to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether the White House had violated the Federal Records...
US Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday criticized a provision in the Bush administration's proposed $3 trillion FY09 budget that would fund the newly created Office of Government Information Services...
The Chinese government on Tuesday announced the release on parole of Hong Kong reporter Ching Cheong ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Ching, sentenced to five years in prison in 2006...
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is concerned about the imposition of the death penalty against journalism student Sayad Parwez Kambaksh but will not intervene in the case pending Kambaksh's appeal, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday. Under...
A federal judge on Monday upheld a jury verdict finding Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church guilty of intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy...
A Chinese court convicted dissident writer Lu Gengsong on subversion charges Tuesday, sentencing Lu to four years in prison for writing essays exposing corruption within the Communist Party of China (CPC) . Lu was arrested last October and...
A federal district court on Monday rejected the Bush administration's attempt to exempt the US Navy from environmental laws so that the Navy could continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the coast of southern...
Former Cambodian Foreign Minister Ieng Sary , accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the Khmer Rouge communist regime of the 1970s, was hospitalized Monday for a urinary tract...
Lawyers representing the families of 17 US Navy personnel killed in the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole have filed court papers asking US District Judge Robert G....
