Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez has signed an order allowing Guatemala to extradite former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo so that he can face charges of embezzlement for alleged misuse of defense department funds during his presidency, Mexican officials said Tuesday. The charges allege that officials tied to Portillo pocketed most of the $15 million [...]

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A UN human rights body has called the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoists (CPN-M) to stop its parallel law enforcement activities, which has resulted into "serious" human rights abuses in Nepal recently. "OHCHR-Nepal calls again on the CPN-M leadership to stop all parallel 'law enforcement' activities, and especially incidents of torture and ill-treatment," Sandra [...]

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The National People's Congress of China Tuesday approved an amendment to the country's banking laws which was written to combat corruption as global competition with the Chinese banking sector continues to increase. The amendment will make it easier for banking supervisory organizations to uncover illegalities in the banking sector by opening up investigations to include [...]

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A senior judge in Iraq has been kidnapped at gunpoint, a Salahudin provincial police colonel said Wednesday. Judge Sa'adoun Hassan al-Azzawi was kidnapped Tuesday night by gunmen while traveling in his car. Azzawi is the deputy head of the Tikrit court of appeal, and his abduction marks the third recent attack on judges by militants. [...]

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Serbian war crimes suspect and former nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj , was removed from a court hearing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday after he disrupted proceedings on several occasions. An ICTY appeals panel last month ruled that Seselj could represent himself during his trial, but also appointed two lawyers [...]

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A UN human rights expert expressed concern Tuesday about human rights violations allegedly committed by a Mexican paramilitary group in the Mexican province of Oaxaca during clashes between protesters and the police. Rodolfo Stavenhagen , the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples, cited "the killing and [...]

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