Switzerland's top Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner Hanspeter Thür said Friday that Swiss banks violated national secrecy laws when they failed to inform customers using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) international...

Members of the Australian Lawyers Alliance have voted unanimously to condemn the Australian government's handling of the case of Australian national David Hicks , held by American authorities at Guantanamo Bay after...

The European Union (EU) Friday condemned passage of a French bill making it a crime punishable by imprisonment to deny that the mass killing of Armenians in Turkey during World War I...

A Russian court has shut down the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (ORCD) , a Chechen human rights group that has been exposing abuses against civilians in Chechnya and providing assistance to victims of violence. The decision follows the February...

President George W. Bush signed two bills into law Friday separately imposing sanctions on North Korea and Sudan in light of the former's nuclear test earlier this week and reports of continued atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region...

A judge in Florida refused Friday to block the sale of the controversial video game Bully , ruling that it does not qualify as a "public nuisance" under state law. The suit, brought by long-time video games foe...

Peruvian rebel leader Abimael Guzman was found guilty of aggravated terrorism Friday and sentenced to life in prison by a Peruvian civil tribunal in Callao. Guzman founded the Shining Path guerilla movement in 1980 and...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against the city of Philadelphia Friday for violating the rights of its Spanish-speaking voters in breach of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The complaint was...

A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury issued a $78.47 million verdict against retailer Wal-Mart Friday, awarding damages to plaintiffs on behalf of current and former Pennsylvania employees for work during rest...

Pentagon surveillance of peace activists, American Civil Liberties Union, October 13, 2006 [documents showing that the Department of Defense labeled anti-war activities as "potential terrorist activity" and monitored students, Quakers and other anti-war groups while collecting information for a domestic...