A Chinese court rejected the final appeal Friday of Chen Guangcheng , a blind Chinese human rights legal activist, who was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for damaging property and "organizing...
Peruvian president Alan Garcia Thursday proposed a national referendum on introducing capital punishment for convicted terrorists after a legislative proposal to that effect was defeated 49-26 in the...
The French Court of Cassation , the country's highest court on civil and criminal affairs, has ruled that a war crimes investigation against Republic of Congo (ROC) President Denis Sassou Ngusseo ...
Texas District Judge Bruce Priddy granted a 14-day temporary restraining order on Thursday preventing anti-illegal immigrant measures from going into effect as scheduled on Friday in Farmers Branch, Texas. The ordinances, passed last month in the Dallas suburb [JURIST...
The trial of Dragomir Milosevic began Thursday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . Milosevic, a former Bosnian Serb general not related to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, has been...
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Thursday that Germany would place a high emphasis on containing illegal immigration originating from North Africa and Eastern Europe during the six-month German presidency of the EU. Schaeuble is...
US Army Specialist William Hunsaker has received an 18-year prison sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to murder, attempted murder and obstruction of justice charges relating to the killing of several Iraqi detainees after a May...
A Cuban exile militant wanted in Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people was indicted Thursday by a US federal grand jury in Texas on one count of...
In his final will, dictated to his principal Iraqi defense counsel Khalil al-Dulaimi 24 hours before his December 30 execution , former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein instructed his legal team to stop...
The US House of Representatives passed HR 3 Thursday, which would amend the Public Health Service Act to allow for additional embryonic stem cell research. In a press release ...