A Sudanese court again sentenced four men to death on Monday for the January 2008 murder of two US Agency for International Development (USAID) employees. The men were previously convicted and sentenced to death in June for the murders of John Granville and Abdelrahman Abbas Rahama, but their sentences were vacated after Abbas's father forgave [...]

The Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday convicted an American citizen of engaging in terrorist activities and sentenced him to 18 months in prison. Naji Hamdan, who confessed to the terrorist activities while being tortured, pleaded not guilty at the trial. Hamdan consistently denied the charges, claiming his confessions were [...]

The Intermediate People's Court in Urumqi in China's Xinjiang province on Monday sentenced to death six men convicted of murder and other crimes such as arson and robbery for their roles in July's violent demonstrations that left about 200 people dead and many more injured. A seventh man was given life imprisonment because he confessed [...]

Tens of thousands of gay rights activists participated in the National Equality March in Washington, DC on Sunday to demand equal rights, one day after US President Barack Obama pledged his support to the gay and lesbian community. At a Human Rights Campaign event on Saturday, Obama spoke directly to gay Americans, vowing to repeal [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says that in the midst of the current furor over health care reform legislation we should remember that America's own revered Founding Fathers authorized, and sometimes embraced, governmental programs that offered essential services to the [...]

Argentinian President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner Saturday signed into law a controversial bill giving her government more power to regulate the media, while limiting the power of private media companies. The executive branch now has the power to appoint representatives to a media regulating board. The new law is said be particularly directed at media [...]

Turkey and Armenia signed a landmark accord Saturday in Zurich, Switzerland, which is expected to normalize relations between the two countries and open up borders. The accord, which actually consists of two protocols, contains provisions to establish a common border between the two countries, to establish an intergovernmental commission, and to set up sub-commissions which [...]

Chinese officials said Saturday that 21 people who were charged with arson, robbery, and murder after July's violent demonstrations in China's Xinjiang province, will be put on trial. A total of 108 people have so far been charged as a result of the riots in the city of Urumqi, located in the Uighur Autonomous Region. [...]

Members of the US Congress have removed an amendment to the 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations bill that sought to require additional construction of the US-Mexico border fence . The amendment, introduced by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) , had been narrowly passed by the Senate in July. It called for the completion of 700 miles of [...]

Poland ratified the European Union (EU) reform pact known as the Lisbon Treaty on Saturday, becoming the 26th country to do so. Before signing the agreement, Polish President Lech Kaczynski expressed confidence that the treaty would be successful . European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso expressed approval at the signing ceremony, saying that the treaty's [...]