Spain Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos argued for an expanded European constitution in his opening statement at the Friends of the EU Constitution summit [press release, in Spanish; additional declaration...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper formally apologized to Maher Arar on behalf of the Canadian government Friday for its role in the US deportation of...
The UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has delayed the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor until June 4, giving Taylors lawyers more time to prepare their defense. While the...
Some non-Cambodian judges involved in the multinational Khmer Rouge genocide trials may resign because of a protracted dispute over procedural rules among the various jurists overseeing the upcoming tribunal, the International Herald Tribune reported Thursday. Tribunal...
Italy is set to become the latest country in Europe to criminalize Holocaust denial after the cabinet of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi unanimously approved a draft bill ...
The organizers of a Moscow Gay Pride parade that was denied a permit in May by Moscow's mayor, and then when held anyway in protest was marred by anti-gay violence, are considering filing a lawsuit against the...
The trial of 22-year-old Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil , who has been in detention since November on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife in his blog , has begun in the Mediterranean city...
A jury in California could not reach a decision on the third of a series of questions on a verdict form in the consolidated cases of two men who blamed their heart attacks on the painkiller Vioxx [JURIST news...
A second US soldier has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, and is expected to plead guilty to charges stemming from the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family...
The father and military lawyer of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks spoke out against new US military commission rules Thursday, insisting that the regulations are even more unfair...
