Croatian police on Friday arrested a former senior member of the nation’s ruling party for alleged war crimes he committed against Serbian civilians in 1991 during the Serbo-Croatian war . The arrest of former interior ministry official Tomislav Mercep comes just one day after Amnesty International (AI) released a report criticizing Croatia’s lack of political [...]

A German administrative court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Khaled El-Masri seeking the arrest and extradition of 13 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents whom El-Masri claims kidnapped and illegally detained him in 2003 as part of the Bush administration’s extraordinary rendition program, according to a ruling made public Friday. The Cologne Administrative Court ruled Tuesday [...]

Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader was arrested in Austria on Friday pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by Croatia. Sanader, who was elected to parliament after he stepped down from the prime minister position in 2009, stands accused of corruption, abuse of power and fraud for taking nearly €4 million from public firms and [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in three cases related to the duty of generic drug manufacturers to list possible side effects on the labels of medicines they produce. The three cases, PLIVA Inc. v. Mensing , Actavis v. Mensing and Actavis v. Demahy were consolidated and will receive one hour of oral [...]

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that prosecutors can indict a genetic profile in a rape case, even if they do not know the suspect’s name. The ruling will allow prosecutors to indict suspects based on a DNA profile so that once the suspect is identified the prosecution will not be barred by the [...]

Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in absentia Friday in Oslo, Norway. The prize was laid in an empty chair following the ceremony. It would normally be presented to either the recipient or a close relative, as has been the case with other laureates who were being held [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday criticized actions by governments and corporations to cut off funding to WikiLeaks , saying it could violate the website’s rights to free expression. The comments come following efforts from the US government and US-based companies to cut ties with the controversial website, responsible for leaking [...]

Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the UN Security Council Thursday that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is deliberately protecting those accused of committing genocide in Darfur . Moreno-Ocampo said that violence has been ongoing and that hundreds of civilians have been killed and thousands displaced over the past six months. [...]

A court in the Italian town of Parma on Thursday convicted the founder and former chief executive of dairy giant Parmalat SpA , Calisto Tanzi , for the company’s fraudulent bankruptcy, sentencing him to 18 years. The court said that Tanzi and the 14 former executives sentenced with him will have to reimburse the company [...]

A French court decided Thursday to combine two separate cases involving misuse of public funds brought against former president Jacques Chirac , leaving him to face only one trial this spring. It is said that France’s Court of Cassation ordered the Paris court to consolidate the two cases into one trial. Chirac is accused of [...]