Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj went on trial on Friday for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia . Limaj allegedly ordered two captured Serb policemen executed and tortured another...
Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader pleaded not guilty on Thursday to taking bribes worth €10 million from Hungarian energy group MOL in exchange for allowing MOL a dominant position in Croatia's oil and gas group...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) , marking the first time a Congressional group has voted to repeal the law banning same-sex marriage. The vote...
The United Nations Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries released a report on Tuesday claiming that the increase in the use of private military and security companies raises human rights challenges and should be...
US prosecutors argued Wednesday that even if suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is acquitted by a military tribunal, the US government has the authority to detain him ...
The US Sentencing Commission (USSC) released new guidelines Tuesday that will reduce the federal minimum sentencing guidelines for those convicted on charges related to crack cocaine. They also published a 645-page report assessing the impact of...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit on Monday in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina to challenge the state's newly adopted immigration law [SB 20...
China passed new anti-terrorism legislation on Saturday that will amend current criminals laws by providing a definition of "acts of terror" and establish ways for security forces to deal with such acts. The law defines "terrorists" as "those who...
Interim Libyan leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said Tuesday that he intends to make Islamic Sharia law the basic source of legislation and reject any tenets in contradiction the teachings of Islam, but all in moderation to reflect Libya's...
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution Monday urging member states to make piracy a crime and establish anti-piracy courts because of the rise in maritime piracy crime off the coast of Somalia. The request...
