Updated: A woman who defied a religious and cultural ban by driving in Saudi Arabia was initially sentenced to 10 lashes in a landmark case in the ultraconservative Muslim county.
After months of campaigning by civil rights activists, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah made a surprise announcement yesterday that women would soon get the right to vote, albeit not for a…
Seeking to save money and make it easier to monitor inmate mail, a Utah jail earlier this year started limiting mail to postcards, except for communications with lawyers.
A Texas jury today deliberated only half an hour today before sentencing the leader of a splinter religious group today to a life prison term for the sexual assault of…
Unsuccessful in his earlier efforts to persuade the judge in his San Angelo, Texas, child sex-abuse trial to recuse herself, Warren Jeffs tried a new tack.
A New Jersey appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by 16 Hindus against a restaurant that admits it accidentally served them meat-filled pastries in a take-out order.
A New Jersey rabbi and his wife are facing federal kidnapping charges after allegedly luring an Israeli man to their home in an effort to force him to grant his…
Delaware residents looking to enforce the divide between church and state have sued their local county council, aiming to end its practice of beginning each public meeting with the Lord’s…
A federal appeals court has resurrected a Tennessee inmate’s claim that he should be allowed to receive hate-filled white supremacist material in prison because it is part of his religion.
A federal appeals court has ruled against a volunteer Wiccan chaplain who alleged in a lawsuit that California prisons violated inmates’ rights when they failed to give him a paid…
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