Rwandan genocide suspect Dominique Ntawukuriryayo pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, and direct and public incitement to genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Ntawukuriryayo...
Fifteen members of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) were released from custody Monday, two weeks after their arrests at a demonstration in support of detained party leader Aung San Suu Kyi . The activists...
The US District Court for the District of Columbia began hearings Monday in Cobell v. Kempthorne , a class-action suit brought in 1996 alleging US government mismanagement of trust funds for a group of...
The Pentagon has said that an additional 108 military lawyers and paralegals will be assigned to work on the cases of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay , twice the current number. Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann...
Members of the Pakistan lawyers' movement Monday followed through on last month's promise to protest from city to city in a call for the restoration of judges ousted by President...
The president of Sudan has refused to arrest or turn over two Sudanese war-crimes suspects wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The ICC issued arrest warrants in April 2007 for Minister for Humanitarian Affairs...
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) officials released a "charge sheet" Sunday against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf amid renewed calls from political leaders for his impeachment or outright resignation. The 10-point charge sheet details instances when...
A panel of three international judges in the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica sentenced an ethnic Albanian man Friday to 40 years in prison for a 2001 bus bombing that killed...
A UK High Court judge has ordered an expedited hearing on whether the UK government must turn over documents allegedly showing that the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay was tortured. US...
The Department of Homeland Security's internal investigations department has reopened an investigation into the extraordinary rendition of Canadian engineer Maher Arar , DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner told a congressional...
