The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday arrested former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan following his release from a hospital. Khieu Samphan, who suffered a stroke...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has sentenced former Rwandan mayor Juvenal Rugambarara to 11 years in prison. Rugambarara pleaded guilty in July to a single count of extermination, a...
The reconstituted Pakistan Supreme Court Monday dismissed five out of six challenges to the October re-election of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf while still serving as chief of Pakistan's army. The...
The UN General Assembly's Third Committee on Thursday voted 99-52 to place a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty . Thirty-three countries abstained from the vote. Opponents of the resolution ,...
More than 1,000 suspected human rights abusers from 85 countries are currently living in the United States, according to to a statement delivered by Marcy Forman, director of the Investigations Office of the US Department of Homeland Security...
A New York appellate court unanimously upheld the convictions of former Tyco International CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and former CFO Mark Swartz Thursday, rejecting arguments that the pair had been convicted of grand...
US President George W. Bush Thursday announced five nominations for top posts in the US Department of Justice (DOJ), including a federal judge sitting in Chicago for the number two spot. Bush's nominations include:US District Judge...
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said Friday that he obtained enough information from a five-day visit to Myanmar to determine the number of people killed during September's crackdown on pro-democracy protests...
The US House of Representatives passed the RESTORE Act of 2007 ("Responsible Electronic Surveillance That is Overseen, Reviewed and Effective Act of 2007") by a margin of 227-187 late Thursday without including a provision...
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) , led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is exposing terrorism detainees to risks of torture by transferring NATO-held detainees into custody of Afghanistan authorities, Amnesty International said in...
