A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted lawyers for another Guantanamo Bay detainee permission to question Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the self-proclaimed architect...
The Supreme Court of Honduras said Saturday that if ousted president Manuel Zelaya returns to the country, he will stand trial for treason and abuse of power. There are also...
Former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Monday filed a motion renewing his claim that that International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) should drop charges...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and other world leaders on Monday condemned a North Korea nuclear weapon test held earlier in the day. The test violates a 2006 UN Security Council ban on nuclear or missile tests by...
A former high-value US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detainee died in a Libyan prison Tuesday. Ali Mohamed Abdelaziz al Fakhiri, also known as Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi , apparently committed suicide in his cell at...
The US was elected to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the first time Tuesday. The US received 90 percent of the votes from the UN General Assembly . In...
The Appeals Chamber for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday increased the sentence of Veselin Sljivancanin from five to 17 years. Sljivancanin was...
A court in Zimbabwe on Tuesday ordered back into custody 18 human rights activists, including activist and journalist Jestina Mukoko and freelance journalist Andrison Manyere. Mukoko is the director of the...
The Criminal Court in Liberia on Friday acquitted former interim president Gyude Bryant of embezzlement charges. The former leader was charged with the embezzlement of $1.4 million during his interim presidency, which...
A court-martial in Nigeria sentenced 27 UN peacekeeping troops to life imprisonment Tuesday. The soldiers of the 14th Nigerian Battalion were convicted of mutiny under the Armed Forces Act 2004 for staging street...
