Seven Guatemalans filed a class action lawsuit on Monday with the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that they had been the subject of non-consensual human medical experimentation by the US Public Health Service...
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced five Somali pirates to life sentences on Monday for attacking the USS Nicholas . Maritime piracy carries a mandatory sentence of life in...
US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) , along with five cosponsors, introduced legislation Thursday that would prohibit funding for civilian trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees and place restrictions on the transfer of detainees to foreign countries....
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) on Friday signed legislation limiting the collective bargaining rights of state employees, ending a three-week stalemate over the issue. The bill requires state employees to contribute a percentage of their...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and 32 other organizations on Tuesday filed an amicus curiae brief in the US Supreme Court , supporting a class action discrimination lawsuit filed...
An Argentine court on Monday commenced the trial of former dictators Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone for allegedly overseeing a systematic plan to steal babies born to political prisoners during...
Iranian opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and their wives were arrested and jailed in Heshamatiyeh prison on Monday, according to Mousavi's website Kaleme...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday convicted former senior Serbian police official Vlastimir Djordjevic on five counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, sentencing...
District Judge John D. Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion to amend petitions for writs of habeas corpus on Tuesday for four detainees held at Bagram...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Tuesday that Arab governments are using violence to crack down on protests inspired by the unrest in Egypt. According to the report, public gatherings in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria,...
