The European Parliament Thursday opened an official investigation into allegations that several European countries allowed the CIA to secretly detain prisoners within their borders and airspace as part of the US "war on...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour , currently on a one-week mission to Uganda , expressed concern Thursday about fundamental human rights problems in the northern area of the country where...
On Thursday, the District Court judge hearing the emergency lawsuit brought by families of a group of Cubans who were deported for failing to reach US land criticized the government's reasoning supporting the deportation order. The Cubans...
AP is reporting that Jose Padilla has pleaded not guilty in federal district court to 11 charges, including conspiracy to murder US nationals and providing material support to terrorists. Padilla was detained over three years ago...
President Bush Tuesday signed into law a renewal of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 , providing $361 million over two years towards to investigation and prosecution of human trafficking cases, most involving the sex...
One day before hearings resume before military commissions at Guantanamo Bay in the cases of two alleged terrorists, chief US prosecutor Col. Moe Davis Tuesday characterized defendant Omar Khadr [US DOD chargesheet, PDF; DOD...
Three ethnic Chechens charged with the murder of US journalist Paul Klebnikov pleaded not guilty Tuesday during a closed hearing in a Moscow court on the first day of their trial. Observers expect an emotional...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in the consolidated cases Texaco v. Dagher and Shell Oil v. Dagher , where it will decide whether a lawful joint...
US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter Sunday acknowledged that a "heavy sense of drama" surrounded the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito , set to begin Monday. In a statement...
US military commission proceedings against two of a handful of charged prisoners at Guantanamo Bay , originally scheduled to restart Tuesday, have been pushed back to Wednesday in recognition of the the Feast of the Sacrifice, a...
