ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women and girls
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for the Taliban’s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court on charges of persecuting women and girls since seizing...
US judge says government must release Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil
US District Judge Michael Farbiarz had ruled earlier that expelling Khalil from the US on those grounds was likely unconstitutional
NEW YORK: A federal judge...
Bangladesh opens trial of ex-PM Hasina for crimes against humanity
Hearing broadcast live for first in special tribunal’s history
Former home minister, ex-police chief ordered to be in court for second hearing on June 16
US Supreme Court to weigh case about public funds in religious schools
Nearly all 50 states already allow charter schools, which are privately managed but publicly funded
If the Supreme Court sides with the Catholic Church, taxpayer funding for...
US Supreme Court intervenes to block Trump deportations
Trump justifies summary expulsions — and the detention of people in El Salvador — by insisting that he is cracking down on violent Venezuelan criminal gangs now classified by the...
Judge finds probable cause to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating deportation order
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees...
UK anti-Islam activist ‘Tommy Robinson’ loses appeal against prison sentence
Yaxley-Lennon was jailed in October after he admitted contempt of court by breaching an injunction banning him from repeating allegations against Jamal Hijazi
LONDON: British...
What is the International Criminal Court and how can a member country like Hungary...
Liz Evenson, international justice director at Human Rights Watch: We expect other ICC members and particularly EU member states who are united in their commitment to the court to press...
Yoon Suk Yeol removed as South Korea’s president over short-lived martial law
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Constitutional Court unanimously removed Yoon Suk Yeol from office Friday, ending his tumultuous presidency and setting up a new election, four months after he threw the nation...
Amnesty International calls on Hungary to arrest Netanyahu
Israeli PM due to fly to International Criminal Court member state this week
Visit ‘must not become a bellwether for the future of human rights in Europe’