Courts & justice

Montana judge blocks absentee-ballot birth-year rule that Montana Free Press says disenfranchised nearly 6,000 voters

Cambodia's Phnom Penh appeals court upheld Kem Sokha's 27-year sentence for treason on 30 April 2026; the UN human rights office said the convictions are clearly inconsistent with international human rights law.

A Zagreb court issued the first verdict in the EU-funds case involving Croatia's Ministry of Culture and the Faculty of Geodesy: ten defendants pleaded guilty and 19, including a former deputy minister, remain on trial.

Maine's public defense agency, after $13 million in emergency funding, already projects a $4 million shortfall; its commission holds a public hearing Oct. 26 on rules for paying lawyers

Two French filmmakers and their Togolese fixer, arrested on 27 July 2026 while filming near Kara, were charged with 'false statements' on 17 August; Reporters Without Borders says a court provisionally released them in early September

ICC prosecutors told the UN Security Council that four Darfur war-crimes suspects remain at large and Sudan is obliged to arrest and surrender them

Jakarta culture agency head Iwan Henry Wardhana was convicted over a fictitious arts-spending scheme; appeal court raised his sentence to 12 years

The ICC convicted a Janjaweed commander of Darfur war crimes for the first time, 21 years after the crimes, because Sudan never arrested him.