The Supreme Court of Chile has upheld a lower court's ruling stripping former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity, allowing a homicide case against him to proceed. The court's public relations office announced Monday that...
ICTY chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and EU diplomats have criticized a new Serbian plan to arrest war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic as too vague, although they acknowledged "positive elements." The...
British Home Secretary John Reid announced Monday that he is banning four groups under the UK Terrorism Act 2006 . The UK-based Al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect , as well...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday denied a request by Argentina that Uruguay be barred from continuing construction of two paper mills along the river that separates the two nations ....
Lord Michael Levy , chief fundraiser for British Prime Minister Tony Blair , returned to a police station for questioning Thursday after he was arrested by Scotland Yard Wednesday in connection with a...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday that the US Department of Defense (DOD) decision to apply the Geneva Conventions to detainees in US military custody "strengthens the international rule of law, and is...
The US Supreme Court's recent decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld has not changed the Justice Department's position on the legality of the National Security Agency's anti-terrorism surveillance program , according to a...
Indonesia's House of Representatives has passed a bill giving more autonomy to Aceh province and writing into law the terms of last year's peace agreement with rebels . But former...
Sir Richard Dearlove , former head of the British intelligence agency known as MI6 , has said that two components of the US war on terrorism would be illegal under British law. Dearlove, who led the Secret...
A lawyer for the US Department of Defense (DOD) told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that US military treatment of detainees complies with Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions , even though the Bush...
