Exiled Tibetan spiritual and political leader Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama on Sunday accused China of committing "cultural genocide" in Tibet, and said he will not call for an end to ongoing protests in the region. He reiterated the right of Tibetans to protest peacefully and urged that an international investigation be launched into [...]

Newly elected members of the National Assembly of Pakistan took their oaths of office Monday, marking a shift in power to a new majority opposed to Pakistani President Pervez Musharaf . Though neither party won an outright majority in February's parliamentary elections, the Pakistan People's Party and Pakistan Muslim League have formed a coalition government [...]

Three former police officers have been convicted and sentenced to jail by a Ukrainian court for their roles in carrying out the murder of prominent Ukraine opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze . Mykola Protasov was sentenced Saturday to 13 years, while Valeriy Kostenko and Oleksandr Popovych each received a 12-year sentence. The trial of the former [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is facing allegations of racketeering, fraud, and illegal spying after an Oregon woman on Friday added claims to an existing lawsuit against the RIAA, several recording companies, and data investigation company MediaSentry for tactics the entities used as part of an RIAA anti-piracy campaign. The woman, Tonya Anderson, [...]

The Chinese government on Sunday blocked Internet users in the country from accessing the video-sharing website YouTube after videos of a recent government crackdown on Tibetan protesters challenging Chinese rule were posted on the site. The protests over degradation of Tibetan culture and a flood of new Chinese immigrants into the region escalated into violence [...]

Prosecutors in Venezuela have ordered former Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi to appear in court in connection with the killings of nine leftist students in the western Venezuelan town of Yumare in 1986. The Venezuelan prosecutor's office stated that Lusinchi was summoned for "presumably being linked to the act", according to AP. The killings were described [...]

Judge Thelton Henderson of the US District Court for the Northern District of California told the Sacramento Bee Saturday he was "hopeful" that a court battle between the state of California and inmate advocacy groups over state prison conditions could be resolved before trial. Henderson is a member of a panel of three federal judges [...]

The US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the online community craigslist is not liable for third-party postings to its website which attempt to discriminate against people seeking housing. The plaintiffs in the case, the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. (CLCCRUL) had alleged that some postings on craigslist violated [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the new Pakistani parliament should prosecute Pervez Musharraf for crimes committed against the constitution and people of Pakistan, and resist any pressure to pardon him directly or indirectly by law or by promise of safe passage into exile, perhaps in the United [...]

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that a bid by the country's top prosecutor to disband his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and to bar him and President Abdullah Gul from political office was a "step against the national will." Chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya petitioned the Constitutional Court of Turkey on Friday [...]