U.S. Court Rules Afghan Woman Should Get Asylum
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An Afghan woman who lived for  nearly 20 years in Germany should be granted asylum in the  United States because of hostility toward foreigners in  Germany, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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An Afghan court has found three Americans guilty of torturing Afghans in a private jail, a case that reverberates on the heels of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador in Kabul to intervene in the case,  lawyers for two of them said on Wednesday.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Argentina's Supreme  Court ruled for the first time on Thursday that someone who  fled the country fearing political persecution during the 1970s  "dirty war" should receive damages from the government.
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A 32-year-old Afghan woman living in southwest Pakistan has given birth to quintuplets, in what is thought to be the first such case for the country&#39;s huge refugee population, doctors said.
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LIMA -- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has upheld the 20-year-sentence of Lori Berenson, a New York native convicted in Peru for terrorist collaboration with Marxist guerrillas, President Alejandro Toledo said yesterday.
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A former detainee is allowed to keep former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and others in a lawsuit that claims prisoners were mistreated and subject to ethnic and religious discrimination after Sept. 11, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
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Luxembourg - A Chinese businesswoman who fled Beijing&#39;s one-child policy to give birth in Northern Ireland should be allowed to remain in Britain, the European Union&#39;s highest court ruled on Tuesday.
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The outcome of asylum cases can be influenced by things like the location of the court and the sex and professional background of judges, a study has found.
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Women forced to have abortions can seek asylum in the US with their partners, a California court decides.
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Afghan women in New York have had to strike a balance growing up in a comparatively freewheeling society with parents who have held tight to their Afghan conventions.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peru will not free a U.S. woman  serving a 20-year sentence for terrorism even if the region's  top human rights court orders it to, the nation's foreign  minister said in remarks broadcast on Saturday.
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About 60 Afghans held at Guantanamo Bay have been brought back to their country and will be freed on Sunday, the Afghan Supreme Court said.
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The Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether the government can send immigrants back to countries that haven't agreed to accept them, a question that will determine the fate of thousands of Somalis resisting deportation to their war-torn homeland.
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RED DEER, Alta. (CP) - The fate of an Alberta woman charged with abducting her son and fleeing to the United States hangs on the interpretation of a court order.
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The US says many of the prisoners it is holding in Afghanistan will stand trial under Afghan law.
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A divided judicial panel ruled this morning that hundreds of foreign nationals detained for as long as five years at a military prison in Guantanamo Bay do not have rights to challenge their indefinite imprisonment through the U.S. court system.