American jurists control the court trying Saddam Hussein by directing the judge and controlling meetings between the defense team and Hussein, one of Hussein's lawyers said Tuesday. In a Beirut news conference, Bushra al-Khalil, the controversial...
Iraqi officials on Wednesday released nearly 600 detainees who had been in Iraqi and US custody the first of 2,500 detainees slated to be released under the order of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki ....
The US Department of Defense has issued comprehensive guidelines for the treatment of detainees that direct doctors to force-feed detainees who endanger their own lives as a result of a hunger strike. The guidelines , aimed...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales called the May FBI raid of the congressional office of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) an "unusual" but necessary step on Tuesday, comparing the office search to past searches...
Both the Philippines Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday passed bills repealing the country's 12-year old death penalty law in a move that brings the country one step closer to abolishing...
A British lesbian couple married in British Columbia, Canada, in 2003 argued in the High Court in London Tuesday that their same-sex marriage should be recognized in British law, challenging the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which...
The sole surviving hostage-taker in the 2004 Beslan school siege has filed an appeal of last week's guilty verdict with the Supreme Court of North Ossetia. Claiming Nurpashi Kulayev's conviction was "unlawful and...
Progress in eliminating human trafficking which victimizes some 800,000 worldwide is slow, and countries such as Belize, Burma, Iran, Laos, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe have failed to effectively combat it, the US Department...
The US Senate continues debate Tuesday on the Marriage Protection Amendment , a proposal for a constitutional amendment defining marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman. Sponsored by...
Former Yukos oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been placed in solitary confinement for violating a prison rule for the third time, Khodorkovsky's lawyer Denis Dyatlev said Monday. Khodorkovsky ...
