The UN Security Council agreed Friday to a US request to discuss human rights violations in Myanmar for the first time. The UN discussion was announced after Myanmar's military-led government extended for yet another year...
The head of the Council of Europe investigation into possible secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe said Friday that the existence of large detention centers for US terror detainees in the region was unlikely. In a statement...
Hundreds of supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood complained of unwarranted arrests Saturday during the runoff for the second round of Egyptian parliamentary elections , alleging that at least 270 were detained outside of polling...
Syria agreed Friday to allow UN investigators to question five unidentified Syrian officials at the Vienna UN offices in connection with the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri ....
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit announced Friday that it will return to its New Orleans headquarters in January. Following Hurricane Katrina in September, the appeals court temporarily moved [JURIST...
US DOJ Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicated in court documents Friday that his investigation into the CIA leak case will return to a grand jury. Three weeks ago, a previous grand jury indicted former...
The US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicated Friday that all 125 workers arrested at a Wal-Mart distribution center construction site in Pennsylvania Thursday will be deported. Some of the workers, mostly from...
The Pentagon released a report Friday indicating that over 80,000 people have been detained in numerous facilities world-wide since the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. The report comes amid increased criticism by human rights groups and European organizations...
Colombia's Constitutional Court on Friday voted 7-2 to approve the country's new Electoral Guarantees Law, establishing clear rules to prevent incumbent presidents who run for re-election from exploiting their power for political gain. The announcement follows last...
Two UN legal experts from the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees will travel to North Korea later next week to conduct a legal training session designed to improve understanding of UN treaties...
