Prisoners at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay have been subjected to "systematic physical, psychological, sexual, medical and religious abuse," according to a report released Monday by the Center for Constitutional...
Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony must be arrested, a spokesman for the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Wednesday, a day after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni promised Kony conditional amnesty ....
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg testified at the outset of congressional field hearings on federal immigration reform Wednesday that competing bills passed by the US House and Senate are both unrealistic. Speaking...
Thirty-eight people were convicted of corruption Wednesday for rigging public works contracts to finance political parties while now-French President Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris in the late 1980s and early '90s. Prosecutors alleged that...
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said in a television broadcast that his Thai Rak Thai party is innocent of election fraud allegedly committed in an abortive general election this spring....
Claiming that some ballots were counted twice and others not at all because of fraud, Mexico's Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) is demanding a full recount of votes in last weekend's presidential election. Preliminary results [JURIST...
The Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ) on Monday issued a statement declaring its opposition to a draft publications law in Egypt , which the group said politicians could use to stifle journalists with...
British Home Secretary John Reid asked the Court of Appeal on Monday to overturn a ruling that terrorism suspects cannot be detained without charge under so-called control orders , arguing that a judgment last...
The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a lower court's order that a 29-foot cross honoring Korean War veterans be removed from city-owned property in San Diego. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy , who oversees...
A US military lawyer for David Hicks said the US government cannot legally prosecute the Australian-born Guantanamo detainee again because a trial would constitute double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. The...
