The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) Tuesday joined calls to suspend Pakistan from the Commonwealth in light of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule , suspension of the constitution and effective dismissal...
Pennsylvania's lethal injection protocol creates an "unnecessary risk of pain and suffering" in violation of the Eighth Amendment, a lawyer for three death row convicts challenging the procedure said Tuesday. On November 9, lawyer David Rudovsky...
The Court of Appeal of Paris Wednesday approved the transfer of Rwandan genocide suspect Dominique Ntawukuriryayo to the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda . The former public official was arrested in France...
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee was convicted by a Tunisian court Wednesday on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization. Abdullah al-Hajji Ben Amor was sentenced to seven years in prison. He was convicted...
The government of Iran has charged a former key nuclear negotiator with espionage, the state news agency IRNA reported Wednesday. Hossein Mousavian was arrested in May on suspicions that he passed...
A week-long meeting of parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) concluded Tuesday without delegates reaching an agreement on a legally binding ban on cluster munitions . Representatives from 102 nations...
The US Army has issued a statement to top personnel reiterating the Army's ban on waterboarding as an interrogation technique, AP reported Tuesday. The Army officially banned the use of waterboarding in September 2006...
A US Marine declined to enter a plea at his Tuesday arraignment on charges stemming from the killings of 24 Iraqi citizens in Haditha in November 2005. Lance Cpl. Stephen B....
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Wednesday ordered eight Croatian journalists to be questioned about possible contempt of court violations for revealing confidential information. Three national television journalists and five newspaper writers...
The government of the Republic of Georgia has declared a state of emergency following days of protests in the capital city of Tbilisi, according to a televised speech Wednesday. Reading a prepared statement, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli...
