Two of the founders of the file-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) have filed appeals in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) , challenging their convictions for copyright violations in a Swedish court. Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two of the co-founders of TPB, filed the appeal in the European rights court after the [...]

A Pakistani court on Thursday ordered the arrest of Makhdoom Shahabuddin , a former health minister from Punjab Province and the nominee for the country’s new prime minister position. President Asif Ali Zardari nominated Shahabuddin earlier on Thursday to fill the position of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who was disqualified on Tuesday by [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday expressed concern about recent actions taken by the Egyptian military to expand their power, saying the military’s expansive power and lack of oversight puts citizens at risk. The rights group said recent decrees of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and other military-controlled bodies have effectively given [...]

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Spain resigned Thursday over allegations that he used public funds for personal trips between 2008 and 2012. Carlos Divar , who is also the chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, announced during a 20-member judicial oversight board meeting that he will step down from his position while [...]

Franklin County Circuit Judge William Alexander II on Wednesday upheld a jury verdict finding Virginia Tech University guilty of negligence for its response to the 2007 shootings. In March, a jury found the University guilty for failing to warn students of a gunman on the loose after two families brought the case. Alexander lowered the [...]

Romania’s High Court of Cassation and Justice on Wednesday confirmed the two-year sentence against former prime minister Adrian Nastase . He had been charged with graft and corruption , found guilty and sentenced in January to two years in prison. He and other conspirators were accused of having raised funds through taxation under a company [...]

The government of Uganda announced on Wednesday that it will ban at least 38 non-governmental organizations that are accused of promoting gay rights and recruiting children to homosexuality. Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo alleged that those organizations are receiving international support in their conversion of children into homosexuality, which is criminalized [...]

A lawyer for a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) plaintiffs in Tennessee said Wednesday that she will appeal the decision of a Tennessee County judge dismissing a lawsuit challenging a controversial law. The suit challenges Tennessee’s Equal Access to Intrastate Commerce Act (EAIC) text] which bars local governments from creating anti-discrimination laws [...]

A federal judge on Wednesday expressed his doubts about a requested injunction against Google Inc’s Motorola Mobility unit that would have a significant effect on the company. At the beginning of the trial between Apple and Motorola, Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit, who is sitting in as a trial judge for the US [...]

The European Commission on Tuesday announced its plan to end human trafficking in Europe. The commission said that human trafficking is “the slavery of our times,” noting that people of all ages are abducted and sold for sexual slavery, domestic servitude and other forms of exploitation. The commission identified poverty, gender inequality and social unrest [...]