Search Results for: 2008-04-23

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday rejected a controversial South Carolina voter identification law . The DOJ has authority under the Voting Rights Act to screen new voter laws...

Bangladeshi authorities must put an end to extrajudicial executions by government authorities, Amnesty International (AI) urged on Wednesday. In a report entitled "Crimes Unseen: Extrajudicial Executions in Bangladesh" , AI alleges that the Rapid...

Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim testified for the first time Monday in his trial on charges of sodomy, denying the charges against him. Anwar testified that the charges against...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday denied a motion to lift the stay order prohibiting gay couples from marrying while an appeal of the invalidation of Proposition 8...

The Ugandan government is responsible for an increase in torture, illegal detention and extrajudicial killing of its citizens, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . An agency known as the Rapid Response...

Three Indonesian soldiers accused of torturing Papuan detainees received prison sentences Monday of less than one year. Citing lack of evidence , a military judge convicted the men of the lesser crime of insubordination instead of torture....

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...

A judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Friday sentenced Steven Vikash Chand, a man previously convicted in connection with the failed Toronto 18 terrorist plot, to...

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced Monday that Indonesian soldiers caught on video last month torturing Papuan detainees will stand trial before...

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Wednesday refused to overturn a false statements conviction assessed against former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich . Blagojevich...