China responded Thursday to criticism from the British Transplantation Society , which accused the country of harvesting and selling the organs of executed Chinese prisoners, by saying that similar practices had been used on patients...
Afghanistan's peace and reconciliation commission Thursday praised the release of a list of detainees held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay , which was made available as the result of a...
The Supreme Court of the Philippines Thursday ruled unconstitutional a 2005 executive order from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo which prevented government officials from being questioned in investigations against her regarding...
According to figures compiled by Amnesty International , 2,148 people were executed around the world in 2005, with the most executions being performed in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the US. In its report released Thursday, Amnesty...
A Bosnian immigrant admitted in a US district court Wednesday that he lied to US immigration officers about his participation in ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War when he allegedly participated in the 1995 killings of 1,200...
Efforts to identify a country willing to take in former Liberian President Charles Taylor after his war crimes trial at The Hague are now focused on Denmark, according to diplomats speaking on the condition...
A military judge Tuesday said that US Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller , the former commander of military intelligence at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, can be called to testify at the upcoming trial of...
Prosecutors in Yemen are seeking the death penalty against Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal , the alleged number two in the Yemen sect of al-Qaeda, who is being tried for plotting terrorist attacks as part...
An opposition leader in Belarus said Tuesday that groups opposing the rule of President Alexander Lukashenko are proposing an international public trial to prosecute the regime's violations of Belarusian laws and the...
The UK government said Monday that it plans to intervene in a case brought by a group of British citizens against Saudi Arabian officials who allegedly tortured them to argue that foreign officials who torture British citizens abroad should...
