The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) briefed lawmakers between 2001 and 2007 on the specifics of enhanced interrogation techniques, according to declassified documents made public by Judicial Watch on...
International Criminal Court (ICC) deputy prosecutor Fatou Bensouda arrived in Guinea Wednesday for a three-day investigation into the killing of more than 150 civilians in Conakry in September. During her investigation, Bensouda will...
The UN announced on Tuesday that the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) will enter into force on August 1 after being ratified by 30 countries. Burkina Faso and Moldova both submitted their instruments of...
A judge from the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama sentenced former HealthSouth executive Ken Livesay to five months in prison on Tuesday for his involvement in the company's...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on Thursday criticized Sri Lanka's plans to court-martial defeated opposition presidential candidate and former general Sarath Fonseka . The Sri Lankan Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) announced...
A court in Myanmar on Wednesday convicted rights activist and US citizen Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known as Nyi Nyi Aung , on charges of fraud and forgery. Aung was sentenced to three years in prison [AFP...
The president of China's Supreme People's Court , Wang Shengjun , called Wednesday for increased efforts to fight corruption in the country's court system. While Shengjun noted that progress has been...
A Chinese police official said Wednesday that three people have been arrested for their involvement in the 2008 melamine-tainted milk scandal . The general manager of Lekang Dairy Co., Zhang Wenxue, as well as vice...
The Swiss Federal Council announced Wednesday that it would accept two Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay . The council decided to admit the detainees for humanitarian reasons, despite the Chinese citizenship of both Uighurs and...
The Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner announced Thursday that it would launch a new probe of Facebook to investigate privacy issues in response to a recent complaint. Facebook's privacy tool, which it introduced...
