Li Rongxing, a former oilfield chief, has been sentenced to death in China after being convicted of taking bribes and embezzling over $4.6 million in the people's intermediate court in Tai'an , newspapers in Beijing reported...
Several US senators condemned parts of a national reconciliation proposal designed to end the Iraqi insurgency and facilitate reconstruction, which was unveiled to the Iraqi parliament Sunday by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki . US lawmakers...
Canada authorities confirmed Friday that they had asked Germany to detain Iranian prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi if he passed through German territory after attending the inaugural meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland,...
A UK Court of Appeal on Friday dismissed a case arguing that Britain's ban on fox hunting with dogs infringed on human rights. The Countryside Alliance challenged a Hunting Act 2004 , saying it was...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour denounced human rights abuses committed during the war on terror Friday, urging governments to give terror suspects a fair trial and reminding them of the "absolute ban on torture"...
Iraq released 500 detainees from Abu Ghraib prison Friday as part of an ongoing national reconciliation plan first announced by new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki earlier this month. Maliki promised that...
The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court has delayed the verdict in the trial of Zhao Yan , a former New York Times researcher, a defense lawyer said Friday. Zhao has been indicted for "providing state secrets...
Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews introduced a bill in the Canadian House of Commons Thursday that would raise the age of sexual consent to 16 in a bid to crack down on Internet predators...
Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants ended a brief hunger strike late Thursday after Hussein missed only one meal. Hussein began the hunger strike in protest of the murder of one of...
US Central Intelligence Agency counterterrorism agents secretly reviewed financial records of Americans listed in an international database after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks , focusing on people with links to al Qaeda, according to reports...
