Two Iranians were executed Thursday and nine others have been sentenced to death for their roles in last summer's post-election protests , according to the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) ....
French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Wednesday for strong banking regulations to restore the "moral dimensions" of capitalism. Speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in...
The North Korean government is holding approximately 200,000 dissidents in six prison camps spread throughout the country, according to a report released Wednesday by the South Korean government's National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK)...
The Italian Senate approved a bill Wednesday that aims to shorten the trial and appeals process by putting strict time limits on its duration. The legislation would limit the three...
The Wolesi Jirga , Afghanistan's lower house of Parliament, Saturday narrowly approved Habibullah Galib as the country's new Minister of Justice but overall rejected 10 of President Hamid Karzai's 17 nominees...
US Department of Defense officials Friday released the names of prisoners held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, in response to a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the...
Mongolian President Elbegdorj Tsakhia announced Thursday that he would suspend the death penalty and commute the sentences of all prisoners currently on death row to 30 years in prison. In a lengthy...
A UN spokesperson acknowledged Wednesday that Haiti's main prison in the capital Port-au-Prince collapsed in Tuesday's earthquake, and many of the inmates have escaped. As US President Barack Obama sent thousands of troops to help with the...
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ordered the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to release some files from its interview with former...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday denied that Iran had broken nuclear development regulations in respect to a newly-disclosed nuclear facility, insisting that the applicable disclosure rules only require notice six months before nuclear material...
