A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied a motion to stay a preliminary injunction issued in August barring government funding of stem cell research . Chief Judge Royce Lamberth had granted the injunction on the basis that the federal funding violated the Dickey-Wicker amendment, a provision at [...]

UK Home Secretary Theresa May told Parliament Wednesday that the government will review the fairness of current extradition laws that have stirred controversy in the country. Among the extradition laws to be reviewed are the European Arrest Warrant and the 2003 US-UK Extradition Treaty , as well as government’s power to release individuals into foreign [...]

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that at times the government might need a warrant to obtain cell phone data to track a person’s location. The ruling reversed a decision by US Magistrate Judge Lisa Pupo Lenihan of the US District Court for the Western District [...]

Representatives from the Cambodian government and the UN met Tuesday with officials from 30 countries seeking additional money to fund the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . The tribunal, established by the UN and the Cambodian government to prosecute former Khmer Rouge leaders, faces budget shortfalls of USD $7.4 million and $39 [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the Zambian government to investigate the inhumane treatment of prisoners in the nation’s jails and to hold those implicated accountable. HRW claims that Zambian police officials “routinely engage” in abusing and torturing prisoners in order to extract confessions. HRW urged the Zambian government to train officials on non-abusive [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday began the trial of former Kivumu, Rwanda, mayor Gregoire Ndahimana . Ndahimana was charged in July 2001 on charges of genocide or, alternatively, complicity in genocide, and crimes against humanity in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Ndahimana is thought to have played a leading [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) challenging a government policy that allows border patrol to search electronic devices without reasonable suspicion. The plaintiffs, which also include press photographers [...]

Founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) James Boyd, Jr. called Tuesday for the US Senate to fund a settlement in a discrimination case involving minority farmers. The request comes a month after the Senate failed to approve over a billion dollars for a settlement between the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) [...]

The Criminal Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court unanimously confirmed on Tuesday the lower court order that National Court judge Baltasar Garzon abused his power and must face trial. Garzon was charged in April for his attempt to investigate the war crimes allegedly committed under Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War —charges Garzon claims [...]

A Kenyan court on Monday convicted seven Somali pirates on charges related to the attack on a German naval supply ship in March 2009, sentencing them to five years in prison. According to prosecutors, the men attempted to hijack the ship using AK47 rifles and rocket propelled grenades, but the hijacking was prevented by security [...]