The war crimes court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Tuesday convicted four former Bosnian Serb policemen of killing at least 150 civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian civil war . The court sentenced Dusan Jankovic to 27 years, Zoran Babic and Milorad Skrbic to 22 years, and Zeljko Stojnic to 15 years in prison. A [...]

The National Assembly of Venezuela on Monday passed the Social Responsibility Law , which bans Internet content that promotes unrest among citizens or challenges legally established authorities. The law expands 2004 restrictions on television, radio and print media to Internet and electronic subscription services content. The National Assembly announced that the law aims to promote [...]

The number of executions that took place in the US in 2010 was down 12 percent from 2009, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) annual report released Tuesday. There were 46 executions in 2010, compared to 52 in 2009. The report also notes that the number of new death sentences for 2010 is [...]

Belarusian police arrested hundreds of demonstrators on Monday, including seven of the nine presidential candidates, who were protesting the results of Sunday’s presidential election . The official results, announced Monday, declared incumbent Alexander Lukashenko the winner of the presidency for the fourth time with 79.7 percent of the vote. Opposition candidate Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu, when arrested, [...]

The FBI’s preliminary annual crime statistics for 2010, released on Monday, show a decrease in violent crime for the fourth year in a row. According to the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report of 2010 , the number of reported violent crimes between January and June decreased 6.2 percent when compared to statistics from the same [...]

The Sri Lankan Ministry of External Affairs announced Saturday that a UN war crimes panel will be allowed to visit the island to look into alleged war crimes in the final stages of the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam . The decision represents a reversal after months of strong opposition from the [...]

Ukrainian prosecutors on Monday filed criminal charges against opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for allegedly misappropriating state funds during her time in office from 2007-2010. Tymoshenko, whose government was dissolved in March after she narrowly lost the presidential election to Viktor Yanukovych , is accused of misusing money raised by selling carbon [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Friday dropped a lawsuit challenging the US government’s Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) licensing scheme after the government changed the policy. The groups announced in August that they would pursue a legal challenge to the scheme despite being issued a license [...]

A UK High Court ruled Friday that a temporary immigration cap on skilled workers cannot stand because it was passed without sufficient parliamentary review. The court held that Home Secretary Theresa May attempted to sidestep Parliament in enacting the temporary cap ahead of a permanent cap set to take effect next April. Judges ruled that [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court’s ruling invalidating the ban on the military recruitment of minors passed by two Northern California cities. In 2008, voters in Eureka and Arcata each passed the Youth Protection Act , identical ballot measures which prohibited the military recruitment of children [...]