By Simon Marks Washington 27 September 2007 Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has pledged to step down as military chief and restore civilian rule if lawmakers give him another five-year mandate. The Supreme Court is now considering whether he is...
By Jim Malone Washington 25 September 2007 The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take a case that will determine whether the use of lethal injections to execute criminals violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. VOA National Cor...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 25 September 2007 Indonesia's highest court has rejected final appeals from two people convicted for a terrorist attack in Bali in October 2002 that killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists. The court's decision m...
By Daniel Schearf Islamabad 24 September 2007 Pakistan's Supreme Court has dismissed two challenges to President Pervez Musharraf's bid for reelection, but the justices are still considering several others. Pakistani lawyers have also nominated a for...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 04 September 2007 Israel's construction of a controversial separation barrier in the occupied West Bank has suffered a legal setback in the nation's highest court. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israe...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 23 August 2007 Pakistan's supreme court has ruled exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can return to Pakistan and resume his political career. The ruling is the latest in a series of setbacks for Pakistan's embattled P...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 03 August 2007 Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the release of a leading opposition politician, who was jailed four years ago after criticizing the country's powerful military. VOA's Benjamin Sand reports from Islamabad...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 20 July 2007 Pakistan's Supreme court has reinstated its chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, four months after Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf suspended him. His controversial dismissal on March 9, and his subseq...
By Jim Fry Washington 11 July 2007 Supreme Court Justices, with Justice Anthony Kennedy pictured in center Conservative judges now dominate the U.S. Supreme Court. In the first full term since two of President Bush's appointees took their seats, ruli...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 11 July 2007 The Libyan Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences for six foreign medical workers imprisoned on disputed charges that they infected Libyan children with HIV. But there is still a chance they could be spa...